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COLONIAL HORSES. 



Dr. Rutherford writes that " the Indian pony from 

 Walpole Island (Fig. 497) is not in any sense of the word 

 a Cayuse. Walpole Island is in Lake St. Clair in South 

 Western Ontario, fifteen hundred miles from the home of 

 the Cayuse. The Walpole Island ponies are of French 

 Canadian origin, but through the mismanagement which 

 the Indian habitually inflicts on his horse, they have 



Fig. 496. — Brown French Canadian cob. 



decreased in size to about thirteen or fourteen hands, and 

 have become slighter in conformation than their French 

 Canadian progenitors. Some of them are neat and active, 

 and when presentable, they sell fairly well as children's 

 pets. The Cayuse or Western Indian pony is understood 

 to be the direct descendant of the horses introduced by 

 Cortez and his countrymen to Mexico, and the southern 

 part of what is now the United States. Some of these 

 animals escaped or were stolen, many became wild, and 

 others were captured and used by the Indians. Their 



