former colour. They are not nati/es of tliis- 

 island, but are brought from the Dutchy of 

 Holstein in Germany, Hanover, or Arabia. 

 Horses of this colour are exceedingly delicate, 

 gentle in their disposition, proud and shewy in 

 tlieir paces,- have light forehands, and are fine 

 mouthed, but not adapted to much hardship* 

 The roan is not a colour of itself, but is the 

 effect of chesnut, bay, brown, or black, blended 

 with white . on the extremes of the hair. A 

 black roan, though the hair consists of white 

 and black, is quite different from tlie ^iron 

 grey, the white in the former lying principally 

 on the points of the hair, and exhibiting sucli 

 an appearance as if a shower of snow had fallen 

 on a black horse ; but in the latter, the w^hite 

 and black hairs are mixed quite through to the 

 roots. Roans in all colours frequently have this 

 appearance, and sometim.es their hair is mixed 

 like that of grey horses. All other colours in- 

 terspersed, or covered partly with white, form 

 the roan, with the exception of black, which, 

 when it is rcgiihirly mixed to the roots of the 

 hair, forms either a lighter or darker grey, in 

 proportion to the quantity of white -, but vrhen 

 tlie white appears principally on the surface of 

 the hair, it is called a black roan. 



