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high ; thighs well turned and rounded ; legs clean and 

 beautifully formed, with the hair thin, short, and silky ; 

 the tendons are detached from the bone, but the 

 pasterns are frequently too long, and bending ; the 

 feet are rather small, but sound for the most part. 



THE EGYPTIAN HORSE. 



These horses are not at all to be compared with 

 those of Persia and Arabia. They have neither the 

 fire nor shape of these breeds, and are said to be thick 

 in the breathing. These bad qualities, in all probability, 

 arise from the humid atmosphere, and the low alluvial 

 flats on which they are pastured. 



THE NUBIAN AND DONGOLA HORSES. 



Bruce says, " The Nubian horses are beautiful 

 and symmetrical in their parts, of large size, great 

 strength, and most active, agile, nervous, and elastic 

 in their movements, capable of great endurance of 

 fatigue, docility of temper, and seeming attachment to 

 man, beyond any other domestic animal ; 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 considerably 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 



