280 THE DUN OR TAN STOCK. 



ment consists in trotting with the fore-legs and 

 cantering with the hinder, proceeding at this rate 

 fifteen or sixteen miles an hour. There are some of 

 them higher bred that will go the pace of twenty 

 miles, but how long they can keep it up is not quite 

 satisfactorily ascertained. These animals are rather 

 long for their height, very well shaped, with a 

 square head, and mane so exuberantly long, that 

 their masters knot them up to keep them from 

 trailing on the ground. * 



This long-maned race is extensively spread to- 

 wards the south into Poland, the Ukraine, and 

 Podolia, there being, in the Dresden Museum, a 

 stuffed specimen, of which we made a drawing ; it 

 had belonged to the last Saxon king of Poland, and 

 had a mane which measured twenty-four English 

 feet in length, and the tail thirty feet. A case of 

 this kind must be taken, we think, as a result of 

 what may be termed disease, united with extraordi- 

 nary care in the grooming to foster the excessive pro- 

 duction. 



It is to this stirps that the wild horses of Lithu- 

 ania and Prussia, already described, unquestionably 

 belonged ; and those of the great forest of Bialowitz 

 have still in general the same characteristics of 

 livery and form. In Plate VI. we have figured one 

 ridden by a Russian Lancer officer, who stated the 

 animal to be of Ukraine race of the wild stock ; we 

 found it chiefly remarkable foi the cross bar on the 



* Bay Bitshock was lately noticed at Moscow for speed, 

 pretending to thirty miles an hour ! We suspect, thirty versts. 



