208 DOMESTIC HORSES. 



be found in treating of them, that the most beauti- 

 ful and noble is also the most gentle and most 

 educated. 



Anecdotes replete with interest might be com- 

 piled on the subject of the horse, sufficient to fill 

 volumes, but they are more the theme of sporting 

 works than fit for Natural History, where they are 

 only proper as examples to illustrate facts. 



We shall now proceed to give a summary of the 

 principal breeds of horses, such as they are known 

 at present to be established in different parts of the 

 world, entering occasionally into details, where the 

 race under consideration demands more particular 

 notice. 



RACES AND BREEDS OF DOMESTIC HORSES. 



From the tenor of the foregoing pages, it is a natu- 

 ral consequence to treat of the races of horses in 

 accordance with the views therein expressed ; con- 

 sequently, while we keep their original stock as a 

 guiding mark, we shall endeavour to class them 

 according as they are known, or appear to belong 

 to one or the other of their more primitive forms : 

 the bay, the grey, the dun, the sooty or black, and 

 the piebald. Although, through constant inter- 

 mixture and the lapse of ages, it might be expected 

 there would be no sufficient traces to mark them 

 out, we shall find, with due allowance for the effect 

 of such powerful agents, that they are still in gene- 



