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and never receive any food but what 
they gather from the scanty herbage of 
the ground. 
Neither are they ever put into a house, 
so that many of them die in the winter. 
The steadiness with which these ponies 
travel through the most rugged paths is 
surprising. In both 1806 and 1807? I 
made several expeditions into the coun¬ 
try mounted on them. An islander pre¬ 
ceded me to point out the way. At 
first I thought my brains must have been 
dashed out, but I soon recovered from 
this panic. In the most wretched and 
precipitous paths the animal never made 
a single .false step, and also travelled 
with considerable agility. 
Their cows are also very small, and, 
owing to the scarcity of fodder, give but 
little milk. They are kept dose in the 
house, summer and winter; and are lit¬ 
tered with heath, and sometimes with 
peat mould. 
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