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too narrow ; but behind the arms the barrel generally swells out, and leaves 

 sufficient room for the play of the lungs. This is well exhibited in the cut of 

 the grey Arabian mare, whose portrait is here given. She is far inferior to the 



ARAB MARE AND FOAL. 



black one in the peculiar development of the head and neck, but in other respects 

 affords a more faithful specimen of the true form of the Arabian horse. She is 

 of the purest caste, and was a present from the same potentate by whom the 

 black Arabian was given. The foal at her foot was by Acteon. She was sold 

 for 100 guineas only. Perhaps her colour was against her. Her flea-bitten 

 appearance would not please every one. The foal, which had more than the 

 usual clumsiness belonging to the youngster, sold for 58 guineas. 



The neck of the Arabian is long and arched, and beautifully joined to the chest. 

 The black horse in the frontispiece afforded a perfect specimen of this. In the 

 formation of the shoulder, next to that of the head, the Arab is superior to any 

 other breed. The withers are high, and the shoulder-blade has its proper 

 inclination backwards. It is also thickly clothed with muscle, but without the 

 slightest appearance of heaviness. 



The fineness of his legs and the oblique position of the pasterns might be 

 supposed by the uninitiated to lessen his apparent strength, but the leg, 

 although small, is deep, and composed of bone of the densest character. The 

 tendons are sufficiently distinct from the bone, and the starting muscles of the 

 fore-arm and the thigh indicate that he is fully capable of accomplishing many 

 of the feats that are recorded of him. 



As a faithful specimen of the general form of these horses, with perhaps a little 

 deficiency in the head and neck, we refer once more to the following portrait of 

 a bay Arabian an animal of the purest caste, presented also by the Imaiim of 



