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And, even in th.is country, if you fall from a horfe of blood In a 

 chace, he will not run away from you, as a vulgar horfe will do, 

 but will ftand by you till you mount again, though there be other 

 horfes running perhaps at full fpeed, both before and behind him *, 

 In this country horfes run with great fpirlt after hounds, and appear 

 to be as keen in the fport as their riders ; but, in Arabia, thofe 

 noble horfes run againft an enemy with as much fpirit and impetu- 

 ofity, as our horfes run after a hare or fox.-— In the dog kind, the 

 diflerence among individuals is manifeft, both in Mind and Body ; 

 nor do I believe that there is fo great a variety in any other animal, 

 Man only excepted. 



I have mentioned dogs and horfes only, as the animals wc 

 are moft familiar with. But I think it cannot be doubted that 

 there is a very great difference of individuals in all fpeciefes, and 

 not only in the different races of the feveral fpeciefes, but in the 

 fame race. Thus, for example, in a herd of oxen all of the 

 fame kind, it is obferved, there is always one that commonly 

 leads, and goes firfl into any field, or out of it : And I have been 

 told it is a common thing, when a man buys a certain number 

 of cattle, the befl of a great herd, that, he choofes them by the order 

 in which they come into, or go out of the fold. It is the fame 

 w^ith refped to fheep ; a thing that appears to have been obferved 

 as early as the days of Homer ; for he makes the Cyclops fay to 

 his ram, when he came lafl out of the cave, having the weight of 

 Ulyffes faftened under his belly, ' Why do you- come laft ? You 

 * arc not accuftomed to be left by the reft of the flock, but you are 

 ' in ufe lirft to advance to the field with great ftridcs, to crop the 

 ' g^rafs ; and firfl you go to the wat^er, and firfl you return to the 



' fold 



* This is a quality which they owe to their Arabian blood ; for M. D'ArvIeux, 

 whom I quoted in the preceding note, relates the fame thing of the Arabian horfes, 

 Vol. iii. p. 2^4. 



