156 THE WILD HORSE. 



dennes, Great Britain, and in the Scandinavian 

 highlands : * all remarkable for an intelligent but 

 malicious character, broad foreheads, strong lower 

 jaws, heavy manes, great forelocks, long bushy tails, 

 robust bodies, and strong limbs ; with a livery in 

 general pale dun, yellowish brown, a streak along 

 the spine and cross bars on the limbs, or the limbs 

 entirely black, as well as all the long hair, and 

 mostly having a tendency to ashy and grey, often 

 dappled on the quarter and shoulders. They prefer 

 the cover, delight in rocky situations, are dainty in 

 picking their food, do mischief in plantations, and 

 their cunning, artifice, and endurance is far greater 

 than that of large horses. From many circum- 

 stances, this form of Equus may be deemed indi- 

 genous in North-western Europe, and aborigine 

 distinct from the large black race of Northern Gaul, 

 which once ranged wild in the marshy forests of 

 the Netherlands, and was so fierce that it was held 

 to be untameable. It was a gaunt, ugly animal, 



* These we take to have been the peall, gwihvst^ and heffil 

 of the British Celtse, — tit and uppir.g of the subsequent Saxons, 

 — for we find, in some notes taken from MS. documents col- 

 lected for the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists in Vita 

 St. Huberti and Ste. Genovevas, " Runcini wd^o upjnng ;'''' and 

 in a fragment apparently of the patrimonial property of the 

 Carlovingian dynasty at Heristhal, some account of stabled 

 horses and uppings. It is the same as the Finnic hepo^ Greek 

 ifffos, and Latin equus, but the first of these only indicates the 

 root to be connected with getting up, mounting ; hence our 

 eppijig-fiiones or horse blocks, and Epping Forest, where they 

 may have run wild, &c. 



