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Euxine, about the river Borysthenes ; this applies 

 chiefly to the Cappadocian, and by what is said 

 of the white Nisean, a Cilician breed, their origin 

 is somewhat corroborated, there still being noble 

 white studs of horses among the Circassians. TVe 

 do not find whence Great Armenia derived its 

 hardy race with huge manes, but probably it was 

 of the wild dun-coloured, and from that very cir- 

 cumstance occasioned the fashion of hogging it into 

 a ridgy crest, a practice followed in Greece until 

 the nation was subdued by the Romans. From 

 Armenia the Tyrians derived horses, and it is be- 

 lieved that trade existed already in the era of Nebu- 

 chadnezzar. The Romans, in like manner, preferred 

 these robust warlike chargers to the Egyptian, from 

 the time they obtained footing in Asia, and regu- 

 larly drew remounts from thence for their cavalry. 

 There was, in the time of Homer, in Asia Minor, a 

 Phrygian breed of c^erulean or light ash colour, 

 clearly a variety of the white, but on account of 

 the livery ascribed to a marine origin, and therefore 

 styled Neptunian and Borean, because it came from 

 the north and was extremely fleet. At a later 

 period, the Colophonian, Chalcedonian, and other 

 Greek Ionian breeds, were of a mixed race, carried 

 across the Euxine by the colonies from Europe, who 

 had, by their geographical position in the mother- 

 country, tribes of diflerent descent that had each 

 biouoht their own horses with them. 



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Greece, we have seen, possessed horses of various 

 origin, thoup;h the greater proportion were of the 



