CLOUDLAND HORSES 43 



Out on the delta coast, far to the right, 

 beyond a deep sea channel, rose the white Ice- 

 cap of Sweden, whose Ice-flood filled the Nor- 

 way fjords with berg-breeding glaciers. Far to 

 the left rose the ice-clad Grampians. 



The Delta people and those of the Baltic 

 Lake were poor savages living upon shell fish, 

 and making mounds of shell refuse round their 

 hearths. Inland were stronger peoples who 

 had lake villages or trenched encampments on 

 headlands of the downs. 



As the grass followed the advancing fir 

 woods, the primitive stock of Cloudland re- 

 turned to pastures from whence it had been 

 driven by the cold. These w^ere not Duns, 

 Bays, or striped, but native Cloudland horses 

 adapted to this region of little sunshine. 

 Strong Dun was not needed to guard them 

 from the actinic rays of sunlight, so their dull 

 colour had yellowish, brownish and reddish 

 tones which blended with the landscape, such 

 colours as are worn by the Celtic ponies of 

 Britain and other Atlantic isles. 



The wild horses were evolving three utterly 

 different types. On the chalk downs, and on 

 the limestone tracts north of the Humber, 

 there were Hghtly built, slender, graceful 

 horses of fair height. On the clays there were 



