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but seldom of any real value, a fact the more re- 

 markable, as pasturage is abundant and very fine, 

 and the pure air of mountain regions breeds, in all 

 parts of the northern hemisphere, small horses at 

 least of great vigour ; but the bay stock is no where 

 a mountain race. 



The Bedoueens, as far as the deserts of Ludamar, 

 on the borders of Kaarta, are remarkably well 

 mounted ; and good horses of the bay race are found 

 among the Soolimas and Begharmis. Even fmther 

 on towards the equator, those of the Moors fre- 

 quenting the gum-forests towards the Gambia, and 

 of the Foulahs, and in Cashna on the north of the 

 Niger, they are obtained from Fez and Bomou ; but 

 from the Guinea coast they become more and more 

 weak, unsafe, and untractable ; nor does it appear 

 that the Portuguese colony of Angola, to the south 

 of the line, is possessed of any worth recording. 



At the Cape of Good Hope, the horses are of a 

 mixed breed of the black Dutch and Arabian Ka- 

 deschi ; they are not larger than the Arab, but show 

 also that the northern black offer an improving 

 mixture, for the best Cape horses are generally of 

 that colour. Sir Robert R. Gillespie's favourite 

 charger, akeady mentioned, was of this race. 



Turning to the north and east of Arabia, we first 

 meet with 



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of horses, proceeding from the old Armenian and 

 >Vo[jtem Asiatic brown, but now principally com- 



