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animal, or is again a coincidence between the Ara- 

 bic, the old Pelasgian, and the Teutonic. 

 V Thus we may infer, that the original. horse of 

 /South- western Asia came already domesticated from 

 the north-east, and therefore we find no mention of 

 it made, till the patriarch Joseph, holding the highest 

 ministerial power in Egypt, went up with chariots 

 and horsemen to bury his aged father in the cave 

 of Machpelah : for, if he resided at Zoan on the 

 borders of Goshen, or at On (the Greek Heliopolis), 

 where the sun was honoured under the title of phre 

 and phar, he was in the region where the grazier 

 Hyksos, invaders and charioteers from High Asia, 

 had until lately resided.* 



If, without the aid of horses, the progress of 

 colonization could at first be effected only by a 

 gradual and slow advance, and that of military 

 conquest could not be extended beyond a mere 

 vicinity, vve see how readily Sesostris availed him- 

 self of the spoils obtained from the expelled shep- 

 herds ; that with the aid of horses, which they first 

 brought to Egypt, he retaliated and passed eastward 

 to the very sources whence they had issued ; and 



* The Hyksos or Haikos, that is, Haik wearers, is a name of 

 ancient Upper Armenia, and denotes a garment, from whicli 

 we retain the old word Hitch, and the ancient Belgians Fuik. 

 Snorro gives to Scythia the name of Sarkland, the land of 

 Tunic, i. e. liuck wearers, whicli coincides with the received 

 opinion of the region whence these Scythic invaders had issued, 

 and the direction they took in their retreat, although it is pro- 

 bable that they went no farther north than the Hauran, beyond 

 Jordan. 



