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SECTION X. 



THE ASIATIC AND AFRICAN HORSE BREEDS OF INDIA, CHINA AND NEGRO- 

 LAND THE ORIGINAL COURSER OR RACE HORSE HIS CLASSES OR VARIE- 

 TIES IN ARABIA ARABIAN PEDIGREES SPECULATIONS ON RACING 



BLOOD THE GODOLPHIN ARABIAN THE ARABIAN FORM ROYAL 



MARES DOCILITY AND GOOD NATURE OF THE ARABIAN HORSE CUSTOMS, 



MANAGEMENT, PARTICULAR CRUELTY OF THE ARABS. 



HAVING given a general outline of the Horse, as he is at this 

 day found in Europe, Britain excepted, and in a part of the Russian 

 dominions, I proceed to trace him in Asia, Africa and southern Ame- 

 rica ; concluding with our own country and the united American States, 

 where the subject rises into its highest degree of importance. 



In the Asiatic dominions of Russia, and in Asiatic Turkey, we 

 begin to meet with the unmixed southern Horse. It has already been 

 stated, that the originals of this species are found exclusively in Arabia 

 andBarbary; and the species is produced in the greater perfection 

 in the circumjacent countries, in proportion to their proximity to its 

 indigenous soils. But it degenerates both in the high southern latitudes, 

 and in any considerable advance towards the east : thus. Horses are not 

 found in perfection either in southern Africa, India or China; but of 

 greatly diminished size, and although bearing the external conforma- 

 tion of the blood Horse, almost totally divested of his admirable 

 qualifications. Those of the coast of Guinea, are described as so 

 small, and so spiritless in their action, that their heads almost touch the 

 ground as they walk: thus we see the Horses of both the high northern 

 and southern latitudes, are of diminutive size, but with the vast advan- 

 tage in favour of the former, that however small in bulk, they are 

 great in strength, spirit and activity. The Indian Horses, beside their 

 small stature and weakness, are also naturally vicious and seldom to 



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