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these people been in augmenting this faculty, 

 by their uninterrupted care always to select 

 the most eminent of the kind to breed from, 

 that they have at length obtained a race which 

 possesses it to a degree that could never have been 

 deemed possible by other nations, had not the 

 evidence of the fact been altogether undeniable. 

 A Horse in that country, which cannot sustain ab- 

 stinence for three days, under continued bodily 

 exertion, is accounted of little value*. 



. Him the fierce Arab mounts, and with his troop 

 Of bold compeers, ranges the deserts wild. 

 Where, by the magnet's aid, the traveller 

 Steers his untrodden course ; yet oft on land 

 Is wreck'd, in the high-rolling waves of sand 

 Immers'd and lost. While these intrepid bands, 

 Safe in their Horses' strength, out-fly the storm, 

 And scouring round, make men and beasts their prey. 



THE RACE-HORSE. 



With respect to speed, for a short distance, the 

 British Race-Horse is, at this time, without rival in 

 any country of the world. The Arabian Horses, 

 which have been tried in England, have never 



* Anderson's Recreations in Agriculture, &c, p. 72. 



proved 



