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THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS 



light, the Clydesdale's is heavy and expresses the concentra- 

 tion of power; their strength in dragging the light chariots of 

 the Caledonian warriors was accounted marvellous for their 

 size, the Clydesdale can haul the heavily laden waggons 

 of the farmer with an easy vigour; their nature was' wild, the 

 temper of the Clydesdale should be docile and mild. 



From a minute examination of their external charac- 

 teristics, as well as of the less patent features of the skeleton, 

 modern investigators have come to the conclusion that the 



Fig. 19. Clydesdale mare a modern product of selective breeding. " Dunure Chosen," 

 Champion, Highland Show, 1914. ^V nat. size. 



heavy breeds have inherited their qualities from several 

 widely different original stocks;- from the original "plateau" 

 or moorland type, which inhabited Britain in interglacial 

 times short of stature and fine of limb, with small fine head, 

 narrow and almost straight in profile ; from a " forest " type, 

 large and coarsely built, with short broad face a prehistoric 

 dweller in the forest-land of Central Europe; and from a 

 long-faced, long-limbed, "steppe" type, which in preglacial 

 times lived in the upland valleys of the East. 



However this may be, the influence of man is singularly 



