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SECTION VIII. 



HORSES OK LAPLAND SU'EDEN NORWAY SU REFOOTEDN ESS AN D COU- 

 RAGE OF THE LATTER BREEDS OF DENMARK FRIEZLAND POLAND 



FLANDERS GERMANY HUNGARY FRANCE. AUSPICIOUS COMMENCE- 

 MENT OF JOCKEYSHIP IN FRANCE, AND LATE ATTEMPTS AT IMPROVE- 

 MENT. 



TO return to the North, Lapland has its pecuHar breed of small 

 Horses, which, according to report, are active and warm-tempered, 

 and not ill-shaped. They are used only in winter, and as well as the 

 rein-deer, draw sledges over the ice and snow. In the summer season 

 they are all turned into the forests, where they are said to have the 

 singular custom, or instinct, of dividing themselves into separate troops, 

 and on the approach of winter, to return of their own accord, to 

 their masters, a thing by no means improbable, since the forest will 

 no longer supply them with food. An old voyager to the north 

 (Outhiev) tells us, that when the Laplanders desire to stop their Horses, 

 they pull at their tails ; a piece of manege, at least as reasonable as that 

 of the old Irish, who made their Horses draw by the tail. 



The native Horse of Sweden and Norway is of small size, generally, 

 and always Ioav. The latter is of some consequence, in relation to 

 the Horses of this country, in certain varieties of which, there is a 

 considerable admixture of norse, or Norway blood : in fact, the dun 

 colour in our common road hacknies, is chiefly derived from that 

 source. This cross has taken place in a method opposite to the general 

 one, since the custom has been to import Norway mares, not stallions. 

 These have been chiefly imported to the coasts of Suffolk and Norfolk, 

 in former days, for I have not heard of the practice Avithin the last 

 thirty years, and very probably the duns and sorrels, or chesnuts of 

 those districts, have been derived from the Norway cross. The pro- 

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