via ADVERTISEMENT. 



publication, — while all the remainder are in a state 

 of great progress. 



We avail ourselves of inserting the following very 

 interesting Letter from Major Gwatkin, the informa- 

 tion contained in which would have been introduced 

 in our pages, had they not been printed off before 

 its receipt ; and we now beg leave to offer, in this 

 place, our best acknowledgments to our friend the 

 talented Author, Colonel C. Hamilton Smith, for 

 the great pains he has bestowed in his researches, 

 and the promptitude with which he has carried the 

 Volume through the press. 



;}, St. James' Square, Edinburgh, 

 May 4, 1841. 



Extract of a Letter to Col. Hamilton Smith, tcritten 

 since the Wo?^k went to Press, and received front 

 Major Gicatkin., Superintendent of the Hon. East 

 India Company's Stud in Northern India. Dated 

 Camp, \ijth February^ 1841. 



. . . " I am glad to find you in a measure confirm 

 an impression I have taken up, that the Arab is a 

 pure and almost a distinct breed. I have at times 

 brought the Arab blood to the notice of the British 

 public by occasional letters in Mr. Pitman's Sporting 

 Magazine. The Arabs are particular in continuing 

 the purity of their blood, and to it all the best horses 

 bred, in what we term India, more or less, owe 

 their origin, on the side of the sire. We have in 



