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Mediterranean Basin of the Northern and the Oriental breeds. 

 But early in the eighteenth century, through increased commercial 

 and diplomatic intercourse with Turkey and the Levant, the 

 Arabian stallion was deliberately introduced into these islands 

 to modify the local breeds, which in some types are almost more 

 Oriental than Northern. 



the Oriental types in North Africa. The original stock of the barb may 

 actually be descended from the wild Equus caballus, which certainly existed 

 in North Africa, and which need not have been extinguished by the advent of 

 man. 



