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remarks on Arabian horses. As for 
Turkmainatti, you say :—‘ I think him 
to have been what formerly we were 
accustomed in England to call a Turk, 
but no Arabian.” Though I. cannot 
judge what kind of horses Place’s or 
Byerly’s Turks were, as I never saw 
drawings of them, I yet do not believe 
that they were real Turks, but nobler 
Asiatic horses; and can assure you, 
with much certainty, that Turk- 
mainatti was entirely different from the 
present Turkish horse, because I saw 
Turkmainatti still alive, and had like- 
wise the opportunity to see a great 
many Turkish horses in Turkey itself, 
and other places. 
The present Turkish horse has, al- 
most without exception, a very thin, 
generally overturned, or what we call 
in Germany deer’s neck, (in England, 
ewe-necked and cock-thropled, ) rather 
a too long and very thin back, and, 
though a straight, yet somewhat point- 
ed and lengthened croup; and, of the 
European horses, it is most resembling 
that of Poland, though it be indeed 
nobler, and the forefather of the Po- 
lish horse, too. But Turkmainatti’s 
figure is almost the contrary of all 
the said attributes of the present 
Turkish horse. Besides, my enquiries 
have completely convinced me, that 
Turkmainatti came from Yemen, over 
Egypt to Russia, and thence through 
Vienna, at last to Prussia. Niebuhr 
says, “That he had found the horses 
at Yemen of a larger and stronger 
kind, different from the other Arabian 
horses ;” and Burckhardt gives us the 
key to it by saying, that “every year 
there are brought to Yemen, over 
Suakin, a considerable number of 
Dongola stallions ;” therefore that kind 
might be a mixture of Arabian and 
Nubian blood, and from such, most 
probably, Turkmainatti has descended. 
Whether it has been the same case 
with the formerly so called Turks, in 
England, would be so much the more 
difficult to be found out, as there do not 
exist, to my knowledge, any drawings of 
them. Ihave by chance found a good 
collection of old English horse prints, 
with a country gentleman at Wirtem- 
berg; among which, for instance, Basto, 
Childers, and the Bloody-shouldered 
Arabian, the property of Lord Oxford, 
London, 1724. 
Messrs. Waddington and Hanbury 
shave lately returned from Nubia, 
where they pretend to have discovered 
the ruins of Méroé. Could you not per- 
Count Veltheim on Horses and Rural Economy. 
298 
suade them to publish any remarks 
which they made concerning the Nu- 
bian horse ? 
I receive at present the Sporting 
Magazine regularly. Its tendency, 
and especially your articles in it, con- 
demning the frequent cruelties com- 
mitted in England against animals, 
and of which I often was witness, is 
very noble, and deserves all acknow- 
ledgment. In Germany this is fortu- 
nately less necessary, as our national 
character is at least free from this 
stain, and deliberate cruelties to ani- 
mals seldom take place. Nor do we 
know such cruel amusements as bull- 
baitings, cock-fightings, &c. which 
surely contribute very much to make 
men insensible of such tortures in re- 
gard to one another. 
You wish for a complete list of the 
errors in the translation of my book, in 
order to publish them in the Sporting 
Magazine. Obliging as this offer is, it 
would be, as the French say, une mer 
a boire, and for the English public as 
tedious to read as for me troublesome 
to collect; for the translation is full of 
faults, which, for the greatest part, do 
not only alter the sense, but even some- 
times assert the contrary of what I 
have said in the original, whereby very 
eften the strongest contradictions arise. 
Therefore I confess freely, that the 
pleasure I derived from the translation 
of my treatise into the English Jan- 
guage, has been much spoiled; and I 
most gratefully acknowledge the in- 
dulgence of the English public, that, 
as far as I know, they have not yet 
accused me of having written nonsense, 
which the translator has really often 
done for me. I shall therefore only 
cite some of the most surprizing in- 
stances, and beg you to publish them 
for my justification, occasionally, in 
any publication with which you may 
correspond. 
Ex. G. page 22, of the original.—I conclude, 
from many before-mentioned reasons, that the 
oriental horse can no/ have degenerated in its native 
country, and at least not in the last eighty years ;’”” 
whereas the Translator ang: “That, from the afore- 
said motives, the thorough-bred oriental horse had 
very much degenerated in Englund since eighty 
years.” This I have not only noé affirmed, but even 
my aforesaid proofs are contrary to it. 
Page 146, of the original, I say, that in France 
there are but three studs of brood mares for the 
state; but, on the eontrary, a@ great many reserves 
or dep6ts of country stallions. Whereas the Trans- 
lator says, that of the latter there were likewise 
very few. 
Page 162, I say, “The Limousine horse is not so 
strong as the English half and three-quarters bred 
hunter 3” but the Translator renders it half-bred 
racer, whereas there are in England only thorough- 
bred racers. 
Page 169, 
i I say, that Mr. Adams had found a 
perfect 
mimmoth (or ante-diluvian elephant, ) 
frozen 
