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surprise when first they see a horse : no Arabian, however 

 poor, but has his horse : tame Arabian horses, some valued 

 at a thousand ducats : different classes among the Arabians : 

 they know the race of a horse by his appearance : Arabians 

 preserve the pedigree of their horses with care, for several 

 ages, 180. Countries into which the race of their horses 

 has spread itself, 186. Treat their horses gently: hold 

 discourse with them : written attestations given to persons 

 who buy Arabian horses, 184. They stand stock still in the 

 midst of their career, the rider happening to fall : keep them, 

 saddled at their tents, from morning to night, to prevent sur- 

 prise : when the Arabians begin to break their horses : how 

 the Arabians dress and feed their horses : first began the 

 management of horses in the time of Sheque Ismael, 185. 

 The rapidity of the flight of Arabian horses is such, that 

 the dogs give up the pursuit, 181. Upon computation, the 

 speed of the English horses is one-fourth greater, carrying 

 a rider, than that of the swiftest barb without one, 187. 

 Numidian race much degenerated : the Tingitanians and 

 Egyptians have the fame of rearing the finest horses for 

 size and beauty : horses of Barbary : an Italian peculiar 

 sport, in which horses of this breed run against each other : 

 Spanish genette described, 188. Those of Andalusia pass 

 for the best, and preferred as war-horses to those of every 

 other country : Italian horses have a peculiar aptitude to 

 prance; the horses of India weak and washy: fed with 

 pease, sugar, and butter: one brought to England not 

 much larger than a common mastiff: climates excessively 

 hot seem unfavourable to horses: remarkable sports on 

 horseback: the horses of the Gold Coast and Guinea ex- 

 tremely little, but very manageable : of China, weak, little, 

 ill-shaped, and cowardly : those of Corea so timorous, as 

 not to be serviceable in war : Tartar horses very service- 

 able in war : they were properly the conquerors of China : 

 march two or three days without stopping : continue five or 

 six without eating more than a handful of grass at every 

 eight hours : and remain without drinking four-and-twenty 

 hours : lose all their strength when brought into China or 

 the Indies : thrive pretty well in Persia and Turkey, 189. 

 Ancient opinions on the nature and qualities of the horses 

 of Thessaly, Achaia, Ethiopia, Arabia, Africa, Italy, and 

 particularly of Apulia, of Sicily, Cappadocia, Syria, Arme- 

 nia, Media, Persia, of Sardinia and Corsica, of Spain, Wal- 

 lachia, Transylvania, of Denmark, Scandinavia, Flanders ; 

 of the Gaulish horses ; of the German, Swiss, Hungarian, 

 and lastly, of the Indian horses, 192. Danish horses of 

 such excellent size, and strong make, that they are prefer- 

 red to all others for draught, 189. English horses excel 

 the Arabian in size and swiftness : are more durable than 



