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commonly called ' Hart-draver,' i.e. Fast-trotter, and from them 

 were derived the Norfolk and Russian Trotters. The Friesland 

 Carabiniers were formerly mounted on them'. 



Indeed down to modern times the Dutch, Hanoverians, and 

 Hessians mounted their light cavalry on black horses of a 

 lighter type from Holstein and Denmark, whilst they drew 

 remounts for their heavy cavalry largely from the heavier 

 black horses bred in Westphalia^ 



The horses of Holstein and Jutland were very similar to 



Fig. 98. The Danish Horse. 



those of the neighbouring lands, as is obvious from the drawing 

 of the Danish horse (Danus) given by Stradanus and here repro- 

 duced (Fig. 98). 



The ordinary agricultural horses used in modern Belgium 

 are of the same type as the Dutch and Frisian. 



Let us now pass to the horses of modern Germany and 

 contiguous lands. As in medieval times military necessities 

 influenced almost entirely the type of horses bred in Germany, 

 so is it to-day. The Rhine Provinces, where the breed of great 



1 Hamilton Smith, op. cit. p. 271. 



