Crossword-Solution: ERGOTS 6 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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The frequent absence of ergots and callossities (those vestigial signs, near knee and fetlock, of vanished digits) would indicate in the Pony Celticus a development as ancient at least as that of the Libyan ancestors of the Arabian horse.

The blights, and the mildews, and the ergots, as well as minuter forms, such as algæ and micrococci, are well known; and no doubt much more is still to be learned from their further investigation; whilst by analogy it seems highly probable that the circulating fluids of higher members of the vegetable kingdom may be found to be invaded by parasitic beings in the same way as their animal compeers.

Though the setting-on of the tail, the somewhat rounded hindquarters and the presence of ergots, indicated that Eric, like practically all modern Shelties, included horses of the “forest” type amongst his ancestors, his skull, teeth, and limbs made it evident that he mainly belonged to the Celtic or riding type.

The “Elephant-Bed” and Kent’s Cavern small “forest” horses are best represented to-day by the long, low, broad-browed Iceland ponies, while the 13-hands small fine-boned race of Kent’s Cavern is best represented by Exmoor and other ponies of the “Celtic” type—_i.e._, by ponies with short-pillared molars, and only two of the eight callosities (chestnuts and ergots) invariably found on typical “forest” horses.