erms on the inheritance by the horse of all good and bad
tendencies and qualities. Perhaps the principle of inheritance is not
really stronger in the horse than in any other animal; but, from its value,
the tendency has been more carefully observed.

[111] Andrew Knight crossed breeds so different in size as a dray-horse and
Norwegian pony: see A. Walker on 'Intermarriage,' 1838, p. 205.

[112] 'Naturalist's Library,' Horses, vol. xii. p. 208.

[113] Gervais, 'Hist Nat. Mamm.,' tom. ii. p. 143. Owen, 'British Fossil
Mammals,' p. 383.

[114] 'Kenntniss der fossilen Pferde,' 1863, s. 131.

[115] Mr. W. C. L. Martin ('The Horse,' 1845, p. 34), in arguing against
the belief that the wild Eastern horses are merely feral, has remarked on
the improbability of man in ancient times having extirpated a species in a
region where it can now exist in numbers.

[116] 'Transact. Maryland Academy,' vol. i. part i. p. 28.

[117] Mr. Mackinnon on '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.'

[118] 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.

[119] Franklin's 'Narrative,' vol. i. p. 87; note by Sir J. Richardson.

[120] Mr. J. H. Moor, 'Notices of the Indian Archipelago:' Singapore, 1837,
p. 189. A pony from Java was sent ('Athenaeum,' 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.

[121] J. Crawford, 'History of the Horse;' 'Journal of Royal United Service
Institution,' vol. iv.

[122] 'Essays on Natural History,' 2nd series, p. 161.

[123] 'Quadrupedes du Paraguay,' tom. ii. p. 333.

[124] 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 grand-parents was of
impure blood) saving his distance in running two miles with thoroughbred
racers." Some few instances are on record of seven-eighths racers having
been successful.

[125] 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