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that the virtues of the race are propagated chiefly by the fe« 

 males '''■. 



If not to material, to what caufes, then, are thefe differences, that 

 we obferve among animals and their races, to be afcribed ? And I fay 

 to Mind ; diredtly and immediately to thofe inferior Minds which 

 animate every thing in this univerfe, but ultimately to that Supreme 

 Mind, who has willed that there Ihould be fuch a variety in his crea- 

 tion, for reafons which, in other things, it may not be eafy to difco- 

 ver ; but, with refped; to Man, I hope it will appear, from what is 

 to be faid in the fequel, that the fcheme of Providence could not have 

 been carried on, without a diflindion of men, and of families of men. 



I will conclude this chapter with obferving, that, whether my 

 philofophy be true orialfe, it is at leaft confiftent with.itfelf: For, 

 if it be true what I have endeavoured to prove in the preceding vo- 



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* In Barbary, where the horfes as well as the people are originally of Arabic ex- 

 tra^lionjthey fet fo high a value upon mares, that they are prohibited to be carried out 

 of the country under pain of death : AndM-D'Arvieux, in his Memoirs, vol.4. P- 60. 

 tells us, that a man was hanged at Tunis for aflifting to fmuggle out of the country 

 fome mares for the Kingof France.— I have been told, that Lord Algernoon Percy, who 

 travelled in Arabia, got a mare carried out of the country with a great deal of 

 trouble and expence. Of what race fhe was, I do not know ; but (he died, as I was 

 informed, at Marfeilles, where flie landed. The difficulty of getting her out of the 

 country, perfuadcs me that there is the fame law in Arabia that is in Barbary. 



The beft Arabian horfe, that, I believe, ever was in Europe, belonged to a Scotch 

 Nobleman, the late Earl of Galloway. He was a mountain Arab, (for the moun- 

 tainous country of Arabia being the befl, breeds the beft horfes), and was given in 

 a prefent to Marefchal Keith, by the Bafhaw of Bender, upon the conclufion of a 

 treaty of peace betwixt the Turks and Ruffians. He was a horfe of great fize, be- 

 ing near to 16 hands high. He was theBaffiaw's own horfe upon which he foughtj 

 and he had the marks of feveral wounds in his body. He arrived fafe at his Lord- 

 fhip's feat of Polton ; but was killed foon after by a doze of phyfic. 



