From the softness of the ground their hoofs often grow irregularly to a great length, and this causes lameness.
The predominant colours are roan and iron-grey.

All the horses bred here, both tame and wild, are rather small-sized, though generally in good condition; and they have lost so much strength, that they are unfit to be used in taking wild cattle with the lazo: in consequence, it is necessary to go to the great expense of importing fresh horses from the Plata.

At some future period the southern hemisphere probably will have its breed of Falkland ponies, as the northern has its Shetland breed.
The cattle, instead of having degenerated like the horses, seem, as before remarked, to have increased in size; and they are much more numerous than the horses.

Captain Sulivan informs me that they vary much less in the general form of their bodies and in the shape of their horns than English cattle.

In colour they differ much; and it is a remarkable circumstance, that in different parts of this one small island, different colours predominate.