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REMARKS ON VARIOUS BREEDS OF HORSES. 



are simply balls of muscle The capable and light-hearted 

 way in which one of these grand Lilhputs can trot away 

 with a four-wheeled carriage containing five or six heavy 

 men, is a sight worth going many miles to see. Acheen, 

 which is in the north of Sumatra, has a good breed of 

 ponies. The Java pony, though a relation of, is inferior 

 to the Dell pony. 



Mongolian Ponies. — Under this broad heading I 

 would class a breed of ponies which is found in the high- 



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Fig 350 —The China Pony, Teen Kwang 

 {Drawn fi om a photograph ) 



lands between Siberia and the Himalayas , for I can see 

 no distinctive difference between the ponies of Bhootan, 

 Spiti, Yarkund, and Mongolia, with all of which I have 

 had more or less acquaintance The so-called China pony 

 is bred in and sent from Manchuria to China, usually vta 

 Tientsin. They have thick-set bodies, short, sound legs, 

 capital feet, fairly good shoulders for a saddle, and are 

 hardy and sure-footed They average about 13.1 and «are 

 very slow In China, Mongolian ponies are used exten- 

 sively for racing, of course, among themselves, and with 



