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Land's End to the Straits of Dover, we have a country 

 resembhng, even to the indentations of the coast, the 

 countries of France from Ushant to the Pas de Calais. 

 Bending northward, the fiat alluvial countries of the 

 eastern coast of England correspond in the closest degree 

 with the lowlands of Belgium and Holland. The marshes 

 of the Zuyder Zee seem to be reproduced in the fens of 

 Lincoln, and in both localities the horses resemble one 



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Fig. 441. — Java pony mare. 



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another, even to the colour of the skin. Stretching again 

 from the Humber northwards, the country in England 

 corresponds with the Danish dominions of Holstein, Sles- 

 wick, and Jutland, and each locality produces horses tall 

 and strong, where circumstances favour the development 

 of their forms, of diversified colours, and differing from 

 the great horses of the marshes ; and we might pursue the 

 parallel until we reached the granitic mountains of Norway 

 and the Scottish Highlands" (Low's Domesticated Animals). 



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