108 INTRODUCTION. 



From this locality it is likely the robber remains of 

 Dan and Manasseh, in subsequent ages, first drew 

 their horses, and they may have been the means to 

 spread them in Yemen. 



The bay stock is likewise seen in Egyptian pic- 

 tures, brought as tribute ; and on some occasions, in 

 representations of battles, it is mounted by riders of 

 Upper Asia, equally advanced in the arts of civiliza- 

 tion. The Lydian breed, so valued for stature and 

 the strength to carry heavy- armed riders, in the time 

 of Croesus, is to this day principall}'^ brown ; but the 

 Arian horses, probably allied to the Masacian, the 

 breed of Susiana, now, and possibly at an early pe- 

 riod, in the hands of an Arabian people, are not 

 described. Those of the breeding station at Aspan 

 Farjan, near Darab, in Persia Proper, are equally 

 unknown. 



We may refer with some confidence to the bay 

 Scenite race of Arabia, the Apamean studs of Syria, 

 where, according to Strabo, three hundred stallions 

 and thirty thousand mares were maintained for the 

 service of the government ; but the Bal)ylonian of 

 Herodotus, who assigns eight hundred stallions and 

 sixteen thousand mares to that stud, may have been 

 of different origin. In Egypt, the system of atten- 

 tion to the breeding of horses relaxed, and gradu- 

 ally fell into disuse, when reduced to a province. 

 The Persians and Romans, from reasons of state, 

 would prefer building temples to rearing horses. 



The breed of Syene, on the Upper Nile, is like- 

 wise praised, but not so much as the Calambrian 

 bays of Lybia, where there is still a valuable race 



