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animal, or is again a coincidence between the Ara- 

 bic, the old Pelasgian, and the Teutonic. 



Thus we may infer that the original horse of 

 South-western Asia came already domesticated from 

 the north-east, and therefore we find no mention of 

 it made till the patriarch Joseph, holding the highest 

 ministerial power in Egypt, sends a chariot drawn 

 by horses to bring his aged father to the banks of 

 the Nile : for if he resided at Zoan on the borders 

 of Goshen, or at On (the Greek Heliopolis), where 

 the sun was honoured under the title of phre and 

 phar, he was in the region where the grazier Il^k- 

 sos, invaders and charioteers from High Asia, had 

 until lately resided. * 



If, without the aid of horses, the progress of 

 colonization could at first be afi*ected only by a 

 gradual and slow advance, and that of military 

 conquest could not be extended beyond a mere 

 vicinity, we see how readily Sesostris availed him- 

 self of the spoils obtained from the expelled shep- 

 herds ; that with the aid of horses, which they first 

 brought to Egypt, he retaliated and passed eastward 

 to the very sources whence they had issued; and 



* The Hyhsos or Haikos, that is, Haik wearers, is a name of 

 ancient Upper Armenia, and denotes a garment, from which 

 we retain tlie old word Iluck, and the ancient Belgians Fuik. 

 Snorro gives to Sej^thia the name of Sarkland, tlie land of 

 Tunic, i. e. Jmek wearers, which coincides with the received 

 opinion of the region whence tliese Seythic invaders had issued, 

 and the direction tliey took in their retreat, althougli it is pro- 

 bable that they went no farther north than the Hauran, beyond 

 Jordan, 



