22 THE HORSE. 



trade pursuits, but devoted their lives 

 almost exclusively to martial exercises 

 and hunting, in performance of which 

 they necessarily required large horses to 

 carry them ; and in Bavaria and other 



Large horse- localities in the German states horse- 

 shoes clis- 



shoes larger than those found in Roman 

 tumuli have been discovered. At the 

 same time the shoes usually found in 

 Fatherland give evidence that the Ger- 

 mans, like the Romans, possessed for 

 the most part only a small race of horses, 

 although unusually large horse - shoes 

 have been excavated from regions bor- 

 dering on the banks of the Rhine, and 

 from this it may be conjectured that large 

 horses to a certain extent were used by 

 this nation for military exploits and 

 smaller ones for hunting and everyday use. 



