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higher temperatures, the horse, in our time, alone of these, 

 is to be found in the same regions, and apparently, without 

 protracted interruption ; since, from the circumstances 

 which manifest deposits to be of the earliest era in ques- 

 tion, fragments of his skeleton continue to be found and 

 traced upwards in successional formations of the earth's 

 strata to present superficial and vegetable mould. Learned 

 philological and other abstruse enquiries, conducted by the 

 ablest authorities, give us only a reasonable deduction upon 

 which to base the opinion that the original horse of South- 

 western Asia came in a domestic state from the North- 

 East. Hence the first mention made of domesticated horses 

 is coeval with the patriarch Jacob's death, when chariots 

 and horses went up with Joseph when his father's body 

 was carried for burial in the cave of the field of Mac?ipelah. 

 Is it too much to suppose that with Jacob came horses to 

 Egypt ? For he came from On (the Greek Heliopolis), 

 the country of the graziers, invaders, and charioteers from 

 High Asia. 



In those remote times, anterior to the domestication of 

 the horse, colonization was of slow and gradual advance, 

 and military conquest restricted to mere vicinity. With 

 commendable alacrity, Sesosteis availed himself of the 

 horses of the defeated shepherd invaders, and with those — 

 the first brought to Egypt — he, in turn, passed eastward, to 

 the very sources from which they had issued. From his 

 era horses have been used in Egypt, but that they were 

 numerous in the ranks of war then is doubtful ; for, until 

 the time of Joseph, as alluded to, they were unnoticed, and 

 even though at that time the shepherd Scythian invaders of 

 Goshen had been expelled, horses were alluded to as of 

 recent and novel introduction. Even so far on as the 

 exodus of the Israelites from Egyj^t, it is recorded that, in 

 the pursuit of the Red Sea, the Egyptians could only call 



