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shoulders, distinctly marked, its vicious aspect, and 

 for the close resemblance it bore to the description 

 of the wild in colour, though in form there was a 

 greater similarity with the Samogitian horses, being 

 rather long than high, though extremely vigorous. * 

 This stirps, therefore, approximates the Hemionus, 

 Djiggetai, and Yo-to-tze 'in livery and markings. 



The Samogitian horses are small, compact, hardy, 

 rather short-legged; the Polish, somewhat loftier, 

 have more blood, and are occasionally dappled grey. 

 But there are dappled bays and dun-coloured, as 

 well as dark chestnuts among them. 



In the Tzeckler mountains of Transylvania, there is 

 a smaller sized dun horse, nearly in a state of nature, 

 probably the remains of a wild indigenous race ; but 

 in the plains a considerable intermixture of Turkish 

 and Arab blood is found, which spreads likewise 

 into Hungary. 



The Hungarian and Moldavian common race is 

 small, dry, angular, with large eyes, small mouth, 

 plane chaffron, open nostrils, no great carcase, slender 

 neck ; but broad-chested, with firm legs, hard hoofs, 

 and the tail rather low. This race extends into 

 Styria, Illyria, and Dalmatia, and is evidently a 

 mixed descendant of the horses brought by the 

 mounted tribes which invaded the Roman empire, 

 partially improved by Turkish blood: we see this 



* Researches, subsequently made among the Russian ca- 

 valry, procured only two other horses marked with the cross 

 bar ; in both it was less distinct, though the animals appeared 

 to be of the same race as the above. 



