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veiled iiine hundred miles in eleven successive 

 days, "^rhey, however, are somewhat too 

 small in the barrel ; too long on the legs ; oc- 

 casionally ewe-necked, and always have a 

 liead out of proportion large ; yet such are 

 the good qualities of the Horse, that one 

 of the pure blood is worth two or three hun- 

 dred pounds, even in that country. 



Captain Eraser, who is evidently a good 

 judge of the Horse (in his journey to Khora- 

 san) thus relates the impression which they 

 made on him : " They are deficient in com- 

 pactness ; their bodies are long in proportion 

 to their bulk; they are not well ribbed up; 

 they are long on the legs ; deficient in muscle ; 

 falling off below the knee ; narrow- chested ; 

 long-necked ; head large, uncouth, and sel- 

 «iom well put on. Such was the impression 

 I received from the first of them, and it was 

 not for some time that their superior valuable 

 qualities were apparent to me." 



Mr. John Lawrence f^ays that it is related 

 on the authority of a certain Prussian Count, 

 that a German Prince having, with the utmost 

 care and expence, raised a most valuable 

 breed of Horses from a son of that well- 

 known English racer, Morwick Ball, it was 

 one of the first imperial acts of Napoleon, to 

 honour the proprietor with a military order to 

 have the whole of them marched to France, 

 which was promptly executed. 



On the same authority it is stated, that 

 about thirty (it must be now fifty) years since, 

 an Arabian Horse was obtained in Germany, 

 probably by the way of Turkey and Hungary, 

 which proved superior, for the beauty, 

 strength, and worth of the stock he produced, 

 to any which had been before kuown in that 

 country. 



The name of this famous stallion was 



j Turkmainatti, a name in equal estimation ia 

 Germany, with that of the Godolphin Ara- 

 bian in England. The valuable stock of this 

 Horse has spread over the country ; and 

 young Turkmainatti at present ably supports 

 the honour of his family. 



It is not unreasonable to suppose, but that 

 this Horse was a native of the country we 

 have just been describing ; instead of an 

 Arabian. 



THE TURKISH HORSE. 



The Turkish Horses are descended princi- 

 pally from the Arab, crossed by the Persian 

 and certain other bloods. The body, however, 

 is even longer than the Arabian's, and the 

 crupper more elevated. They have contri- 

 buted materially to the improvement of the 

 English breed. The Byerley and the Helmsley 

 Turk are names familiar to every one con- 

 versant with Horses, and connected with our 

 best blood. 



The learned and benevolent Busbequius 

 who was ambassador at Constantinople in the 

 seventeenth century, gives the following ac- 

 count of the Turkish Horses. Our grooms, 

 and their masters too, may learn a lesson of 

 wisdom and humanity from his words. 



" There is no creature so gentle as a Turkish 

 Horse, nor more respectful to his master, or 

 the groom that dresses him. The reason is, 

 because they treat their Horses with great 

 lenity. I myself saw, when I was in Pontus, 

 passing through a part of Bithinia called 

 Axilos, towards Cappadocia, how indulgent 

 the countrymen were to young cults, and how 

 kindly they u^ed them soon after they were 

 foaled. They would stroke them, bring them 

 into their houses, and almost to their tables, 

 and use them even like children. They hung 



