286 THE DUN OR TAN STOCK. 



carriages or rutts have begun to be superseded by 

 the kerrachee^ a four-wheeled vehicle on springs, 

 now commonly serving at Calcutta for hackney- 

 coaches. Tattoos are in general deep-bodied, with 

 heavy heads, staring eyes, scraggy necks, fine limbs, 

 cat-hammed, under thirteen hands high, bay or 

 chestnut ; sometimes grey, or even piebald, and 

 remarkably enduring : they are obstinate, vicious, 

 prone to fighting, but easily maintained. 



Seringapatam and vicinity produces a similar 

 small breed and but little improved, although dur- 

 ing the reigns of Hyder Ali and Tippoo consideral)le 

 pains were taken to introduce a better standard. 



Indo-China, a land of great rivers, high moun- 

 tain ranges, and endless forests, is not known to 

 have an indigenous horse. From the Burrampooter 

 east, and from the tropic south, horses are reduced 

 to ponies. Already, in Cassay, Ava, and Pegu, 

 they are seldom above thirteen hands high, but they 

 are spirited, active, and well-shaped. Further east, 

 in Lao, Siam, and Southern China, they are still 

 smaller and of inferior beauty. In Siam and Cochin- 

 Ohina, although the diminutive ponies of the coun- 

 try are ridden, there is no military cavalry. In the 

 Malayan peninsula, the horse is not even yet natu- 

 ralized. But the breeds of the great islands we are 

 about to mention appear in a great measure to be 

 allied to those of Indo-China and Yunan in China 

 Proper, and are commonly designated by the name 

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