Horses / by Roger Pocock.

  • Pocock, Roger, 1865-1941.
Date:
1917
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Horses / by Roger Pocock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ill-tempered and dangerous to handle by bad horse-mastership. So the Dun has a terrible reputation, and in his defence I am a sort of Devil's advocate* He is the typical range horse whose manners and customs will be the theme of the next chapter. PART VI. CLOUDLAND. We have seen the close resemblance of warm winds and seas between the North Atlantic and the North Pacific ; but it was only in the North Atlantic region that the great Ice Age, in long pulsations, widened and shrank its Icefields. Ten thousand years ago (Wright) in the Niagara District, and seven thousand years ago (de Geer) in Finland, the edges of the Icefield were withdrawn for the last time, and the climate began to get warm and comfortable. In America and in Europe, as the ice re¬ treated, a belt of tundra crept closely in its wake, and in the rear of that a belt of green turfed grasses. In Eastern Canada, and North-western Europe these green turfed pastures are varied with woodlands of such trees as cast their leaves in winter. Amid these changes the horse had vanished from North America, but survived in Asia, and slowly extended his range as the ice retreated from Europe. In Europe