D'Aubenton* confiders a horfe of 4 feet 5 inches high and 4001b. weight French, equal to 4 feet 8.6 inches and 4361b. Eng- lifh, as a middle fized horfe. Such a one is deemed a fmall horfe in America. The extremes muft therefore be reforted to.
The fame anatomiftf differed a horfe of 5 feet 9 inches height, French meafure, equal to 6 feet 1.7 Englifh. This is near 6 inches higher than any horfe I have feen:
and could it be fuppofed that I had feen the largeft horfes in America, the conclu- fion would be, that ours have diminifhed, or that we have bred from a fmaller ftock.
In Connedicut and Rhode-Ifland, where the climate is favourable to the produdion of grafs, bullocks have been flaughtered * VII. 432. f VII. 474.
[ no 3 which weighed 2500, 2200, and 2100 lb, nett; and thofe of 1800 lb. have been frequent I havefeen a hog weigh 10501b, after the blood, bowels, and hair had been taken from him. Before he was killed, an attempt