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CONTINENTAL HORSES. 



horses which I have seen, have given me a very bad im- 

 pression, and I would not use them for breeding at any 

 price. As I may have been unfortunate in my acquaint- 

 ance with them, I will merely say that their hereditary 

 defects are heavy heads, weak backs, bad ribs, long legs, 

 * tied-in ' below the knee, flat and brittle hoofs, and want 

 of endurance. These defects ought to prevent people 



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Fig. 521. — Rhenish- Prussian can mare (16.2). 



[J. Delton. Paris. 



from breeding such^ animals, because the fact that a 

 horse is 17 hands high and broad in proportion, has 

 good manners and matures at an early age, is not suffi- 

 cient to make a breeder ignore other and far more im- 

 portant qualities " (Count Wr angel). This writer says 

 that these horses seem to be unable to thrive, except on 

 their own pastures, and consequently they are a failure, 

 when taken to other districts. 



East Friesland horses. 



In East Friesland, during the 



