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THE HOKSE. (Equus caballus.) 



THE noblest conquest that man ever made over the 

 brute creation was the taming of the Horse, and adapt- 

 ing him to his service. He lessens the labours of man 

 and adds to his pleasures : shares, with equal docility 

 and cheerfulness, the fatigues of hunting or the dangers 

 of war ; and draws with appropriate strength, rapidity, 

 or grace, the heavy ploughs and carts of the husband- 

 man, the light vehicles of the fashionable, and the 

 stately carriages of the aristocratic. 



The Horse is now bred in most parts of the world : 

 those of Arabia, Turkey, and Persia are accounted better 

 proportioned than many others ; but the English Race- 

 Horse may justly claim the precedence over all the 

 other European breeds, and is not inferior to any in 

 strength and symmetry. 



The beautiful Horses produced in Arabia are in 

 general of a brown colour ; their mane and tail are very 

 short, with the hair black and tufted. The Arabs, for 

 the most part, use the Mares in their ordinary excur- 

 sions ; experience having taught them that they are less 

 vicious than the males, and more capable of sustaining 

 abstinence and fatigue. As the Arabs have no other 



