SOUND AND UNSOUND HORSES 



and a published account ot his visit is 

 as follows : — 



" The Shetland Ponic^ are of less size 

 than the Orkney horses, for some will 

 be but 9, others 10 nives or hand 

 breadths high, and they will be thought 

 big horses there if 11, and although so 

 small, yet the}' are full of vigour and 

 hfe, and some not so high as others often 



prove to be the strongest Summer 



or winter, they never come into a house, 

 but run up the mountains in some places 

 in flocks ; and if any time in winter the 

 storm be so great that they are strait- 

 ened for food, they will come down from 

 the hills when the ebb is on the sea, and 



eat the seaware which winter 



storm.s and scarcity of fodder puts them 

 out of ease, and bringeth them so very 

 low that they recover not their strength 

 till St. John's Mass Day, the 24th of 

 June, when they are at their best. 



" They will live to a considerable age^ 



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