DANISH HORSES. 



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course, and received its severest blow by the Prussian 

 annexation of Schleswig-Holstein, which deprived Denmark 

 of its best pasture land. In Jutland, and especially in the 

 southern part of that province, cart-horses are bred of a 

 type somewhat similar to those of Schleswig (p. 520). 

 The horses of Zealand and all the other islands of Denmark 

 are thick-set ponies. In certain districts on the sea-coast 



Fig. 528. — The Austrian Emperor's Kladrub stallion, Raverusto(i8 hands). 



are found small ponies which are generally of a grey colour, 

 and resemble Iceland ponies. Like these animals, they 

 live entirely in the open, and in a semi-wild state. 



In Iceland, which is an island that belongs to Denmark, 

 the horse family consists of strong, hardy and active ponies 

 (Figs. 526 and 527), which are very like those of Sweden, 

 Norway, Finland, North Russia, and the Hebrides. Some 

 of them have no hind chestnuts (p. 319), and almost all of 

 them amble from birth (p. 104). 



