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given of these animals. Leo and Marmol say the 

 colour of the African wild species is whitish ashy 

 grey, with mane and tail short and crisped : Oppian 

 makes the hippagri rufous. Struys saw wild horses 

 near the isle of May and Cape Yerde, where they 

 have not since been noticed ; and Mungo Park fell 

 in with a troop of them about Ludamar, that fled, 

 snorting, stopping, and looking back ; but, again, 

 gives no other particulars. None were ever pre- 

 tended to be seen to the south of the equator in 

 Africa ; and it may be asked whether these alleged 

 horses are specifically the same as the Equm cabal- 

 lus of the north ? In reply, we think that some of 

 the foregoing accounts refer to the wild ass, whose 

 silvery mouse colour may be more or less taken for 

 white ; that others have seen the koomrah, which 

 we shall describe as a distinct species , and, finally, 

 that there may be feral horses in Northern Africa, 

 although it is strange that none are noticed in 

 Morocco, in Arabia, Persia, or India, where there 

 should be great numbers, if the doctrine of African 

 or Arabian original parentage is consistently main- 

 tained. 



In Varro, we find that there were wild horses in 

 Spain ; the ancients generally admit their existence 

 in Sardinia and Corsica; Dapper places others in 

 Cyprus; Strabo, in the Alps; and we know that 

 they existed in the British islands all seem to 

 refer to a sturdy form of mountain-forest ponies, 

 still found in the province of Cordova, in the Pyre- 

 nees, the Vogesian range, the Camargue, the Ar- 



