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SECTION XI. 



nKSCRIPTIOX OK rilK BARB OF THE TUllK — EASTERN MANAGEMENT AND 



EQU ITATtON EGYPTIAN ABYSSINIAN SYRIAN AND PERSIAN BREEDS 



PERSIAN EQUITATION AND SHOEING GREENHOUSES AVITH YELLOW 



EVES CIRCASSIAN AND JIINGRELIAN HORSES DESCRIPTION OF THE 



TARTAR AND HIS M ONDKRFLL PERFORMANCES — FEATS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



THE old description of the Barbary Horses runs as follows : the fore- 

 hands long, and rising- boldly out of thcAvithers; mane and tail thinly- 

 haired, head lean, small and ?nouto7nic {\ike a sheep's). Ears handsome 

 and well placed. Shoulders light, sloping backward and flat; withers 

 fine and high, loins short and straight, flanks and ribs round and full, 

 with moderate sized barrel. Croupe sometimes too long, tail j)laced 

 high, haunches strong and elastic, thighs Avell turned, legs clean and 

 thin of hair, sinew detached from the shank, pastern too long and 

 bending. Foot good and sound. Of all colours, but grey the most 

 common. Generally cold-tempered and slow, requiring to be roused 

 and animated, on which they will discover great vigour, wind and speed. 

 Most valuable in their produce. 



There is not much objection to be made at this day, to the above 

 description, which Avas probably given by the famous Duke of New- 

 castle. Barbs are smaller than Arabians, and of a narrower form, car- 

 rying their substance more in depth, and I think, somewhat of an 

 asinine appearance. They are sometimes ass-hoofed, that is long and 

 deep. I have seen individuals of them very full of bone; and Barbs of 

 the first class have proved themselves equal to Arabians, as stallions, 

 getting true and stout runners. They are bred upon a similar soil, 

 and sprung from the desert like the Araliians, of which they are gene- 

 rally deemed a variety. I fancy them an original race, endowed with 

 similar and equal properties ; it is a question, of which the solution is 



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