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off-heel behind ; about fifteen hands high, Avith good bone and sub- 

 stance. His portrait, by Seymour, was placed in the library at Cog 

 Magog, in Cambridgeshire, the seat of Lord Godolphin. Of this pic- 

 ture it may be presumed the famous one of the late Mr. Stubbs was a 

 copy, and which sold at Stubbs's sale for two hundred and forty-six 

 guineas. It is doubtless an admirable piece ; but the artists say that 

 Stubbs saw all proportions through magnifying optics, and that the 

 crest of the Horse is quite out of nature. However, from all accounts, 

 and in the various representations 1 have seen of this remarkable 

 Horse, his crest was exceedingly large, swelling, and elevated, his 

 neck elegantly curved at the setting on of the head, and his muzzle 

 very fine. He had considerable length ; his capacious shoulders were 

 in the true declining position ; and of every part materially contribu- 

 tory to action, nature had allowed him an ample measure : add to 

 this, there is in his tout ensemble, the express image of a wild animal, 

 such as we may suppose the Horse of the desert. Certainly the 

 Horse was no beauty ; but with his peculiar and interesting figure 

 before me, I cannot help wondering, that it should not occur to his 

 noble proprietor, a true sportsman as he was, that the Arabian might 

 be Avorthy of a trial as a stallion. 



This Horse was imported by Mr. Coke, as I have been informed, 

 from Barbary, without any pedigree, but with the notice that he was 

 foaled in 1724. Mr. Coke gave him to Mr. Williams, keeper of the 

 St. James's Coftee-house, who presented him to the Eavl of Godol- 

 phin. In this noble lord's stud he was kept as teazer to Hobgoblin, 

 during the years 1750 and 1731, Avhen, that stalhon refusing to cover 

 Roxana, she was covered by the Arabian, the produce of which was 

 Lath, not only a very elegant and beautiful Horse, but, in the general 

 opinion, the best which had appeared upon the turf since Flying Chil- 

 ders. The Arabian served for the remainder of his life in the same stud, 

 producing a yearly succession of prodigies of the species. He died in 

 1753, in his twenty-ninth year, and his remains were deposited in a 

 covered passage leading to the stable, a flat and thankless stone, bare 

 of any inscription, being placed over him. The mutual attachment 

 of animals of a different genus, when i)laced in a state of society, has 



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