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mal ; and if these faculties can promise anything for a stallion, 

 the Nubian is, above all comparison, the most eligible in the 

 world. They are all kept monstrously fat." They are black 

 or white, but a vast proportion of the former to the latter ; 

 and a few bright bays, or inclining to sorrel. 



The horses of Dongola, like those of the district of Nubia, 

 are of large size, standing full sixteen hands high ; but the 

 length of the body, from the shoulders to the quarters, is con- 

 siderably less, so that their form is quite opposed to that of 

 the Arabian or English thoroughbred horses, which are longer 

 than they are high by some inches. Their necks are long 

 and slender, and their crests very fine ; the withers sharp 

 and high, producing a beautiful fore-hand. They are, how- 

 ever, faulty in the breast, being too narrow, and the quarters 

 and flanks too flat, with the back somewhat bent. Bosman 

 thinks them the most beautiful in the world. One of 

 these horses was sold in Grand Cairo in 1816, for a sum 

 equivalent to one thousand pounds sterling. 



Several of these steeds have been imported into Europe, 

 and some into England; but they did not turn out so well 

 for breeding from, as was expected. This failure might 

 possibly arise from not breeding them with the kind of ani- 

 mal to which .their qualities are likely to be the most useful. 

 It is very probable, that they might improve our cavalry 

 horses by crossing them with three-part bred mares. 



SECTION IV.— AMERICAN HORSES. 



Horses are found in vast numbers in a wild state in the 

 immense plains of South America, extending from the 

 shores of La Plata to Patagonia. They are an emancipated 

 race, emanating from those which were carried thither by 

 the Spaniards, after their discovery of the new continent ; 

 and have increased with such astonishing rapidity, that 



