[20] Mr. Mackinnon ‘The Falkland Islands,’ p. 25. The average height of the Falkland horses is said to be 14 hands 2 inches. _See_ also my ‘Journal of Researches.’
[21] Pallas, ‘Act. Acad. St. Petersburgh,’ 1777, part ii. p. 265. With respect to the tarpans scraping away the snow _see_ Col. Hamilton Smith in ‘Nat. Lib.,’ vol. xii. p. 165.
[22] Franklin’s ‘Narrative,’ vol. i. p. 87; note by Sir J. Richardson.
[23] Mr. J. H. Moor, ‘Notices of the Indian Archipelago;’ Singapore, 1837, p. 189. A pony from Java was sent (‘Athenæum,’ 1842, p. 718) to the Queen only 28 inches in height. For the Loo Choo Islands, _see_ Beechey’s ‘Voyage,’ 4th. edit., vol. i. p. 499.
[24] J. Crawford, ‘History of the Horse;’ ‘Journal of Royal United Service Institution,’ vol. iv.
[25] ‘Essays on Natural History,’ 2nd series, p. 161.
[26] ‘Quadrupédes du Paraguay,’ tom. ii. p. 333. Dr. Canfield informs me that a breed with curly hair was formed by selection at Los Angeles in North America.
[27] See the evidence on this head in ‘Land and Water,’ May 2nd, 1868.
[28] Prof. Low, ‘Domesticated Animals,’ p. 546. With respect to the writer in India _see_ ‘India Sporting Review,’ vol. ii. p. 181. As Lawrence has remarked (‘The Horse,’ p. 9), “perhaps no instance has ever occurred of a three-part bred horse (_i.e._ a horse, one of whose grandparents was of impure blood) saving his distance in running two miles with thoroughbred racers.” Some few instances are on record of seven-eights racers having been successful.
[29] Prof. Gervais (in his ‘Hist. Nat. Mamm.,’ tom. ii. p. 144) has collected many facts on this head. For instance Solomon (Kings, B. i. ch. x. v. 28) bought horses in Egypt at a high price.
[30] ‘The Field,’ July 13th, 1861, p. 42.
[31] E. Vernon Harcourt, ‘Sporting in Algeria,’ p. 26.
[32] I state this from my own observations made during several years on the colours of horses. I have seen cream-coloured, light-dun and mouse-dun horses dappled, which I mention because it has been stated (Martin, ‘History of the Horse,’ p. 134) that duns are never dappled. Martin (p. 205) refers to dappled asses. In the ‘Farrier’ (London, 1828, pp. 453, 455) there are some good remarks on the dappling of horses; and likewise in Col. Hamilton Smith on ‘The Horse.’