ICELAND'S LIVING RAILWAY.
If the camel is the ship o£ the, .desert, the Iceland pony is the cab, train, omnibus, and tramcar of the wonderful .country to which he belongs. To begin with,"' he is a misnomer. H« is not a pony, in the ordinary sense of the word; he is a horse; in bone apd sinew, in strength and endurance, in manors and deportment—ahorse- in everything, in fact, except inches, and a sober, steady, hard-working horse too. He can - swim like a fish,-cliihb'like a goat; and jump like a deer. He sticks at nothing, and takes every variety of travel bog, lava Bed,' gsnd, boulders,and grass mounds-with undisturbed equanimity, ,If he has to ford one-.or two' rivers, with strong currents flowing girthdeep, it is all in the day's work. Only give hitiKtime arid periodical halts fdr refreshmont,.and.he will do his fifty miles per day, and thrive on it. He is virtually the railway of Iceland. • Iceland ponies trot, canter,and gallop, but the pa«e most esteemed by the Icelander is the amble,or ''skied," in which the fore and -hind legs on a side are advanced simultaneously, giving a running action.very comfortable to the-rider.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 30, Issue 9182, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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193ICELAND'S LIVING RAILWAY. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 30, Issue 9182, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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