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they are fed with chopped draw, mixed with bar- 

 lev, and inftead of foiling, are fed with new eared 

 or green barley for about fourteen or twenty days*. 



Ethiopia has with fome writers the credit of 

 having originally furnifned Arabia with its fine 

 race of horfes ; but we believe the reverfe, and 

 that they were introduced into that empire by the 

 Arabian princes, whofe lineage to this day fills that 

 throne. The horfes of that country are fpirited and 

 flrong, and generally of a black color : they are 

 never ufed in long journies, but only in battle or 

 in the race, for all fervile work is done by mules : 

 the Ethiopians never fhoe them, for which reafon, 

 on palfing through flony places, they difmount, and 

 ride on mules, and lead their horfes -f- ; fo from this 

 we may collecl:, that this nation is not lefs attached 

 to thefe animals than the Arabs. 



Aigypt has two breeds of horfes, one its own, the 

 other Arabian ; the laft are mod efteemed, and are 

 bought up at a great price, in order to be fent to 

 Constantinople ; but fuch is the difcouragement, 

 arifing from the tyranny of the government, that 

 the owners often wilfully lame a promifing horfe J, 

 left the Beys mould like it and force it from them. 



Barbary owes its fine horfes to the fame flock, but 

 in general they are far inferior in point of value; 

 and for the fame reafon as is given in the laft arti- 



* Tavernier's Travels, I. 145. 

 f Ludolph. hi ft, Mthlop. 53. 



\ Uni<v, modern bijl. quotted from Maillet and Pocock. 



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