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THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC 



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Flanders be of a great stature, strong, long, large, fair, and 

 fruitfull, and besides that, will endure great labour, as is well 

 seen, for that the Flemings do use none other draught, but with 

 those Mares in their wagons, in the which I have seene two or 

 three Mares to go lightlie alwaie with such a burthen, as is 

 almost incredible." I here give a reproduction of Stradanus' 

 drawing of the Flemish horse (Fig. 94). 



Under the names of Sicamher and Juliacus two horses 

 almost identical with the High Almain and Flanders breeds 

 are given by Stradanus and here reproduced (Figs. 95, 96). 



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Fig. 95. The Horse of devest. 



These horses are of peculiar interest for our investigation. 

 The Sicamber is the horse bred in the district on the left bank 

 of the Lower Rhine occupied at the beginning of our era by the 

 German tribe of the Sicambri, who came immediately north of 

 the Tencteri. The Juliacus is so termed because it was bred 

 in the district round the ancient Juliacum (Juliers), which 

 stood in the hilly country in the district held by the Tencteri 

 and Sicambri. The distinctive tribal names of Sicambri and 

 Tencteri disappeared later on under the general appellation of 



1 Doubtless it was such au animal that suggested Henry VIII. 's remark 

 about Anne of Cleves. 



