262 THE WHITE OR GREY STOCK. 



nor with their horses in such good order, as these 

 were in German hands. 



In the more northern regions of Asia and Europe, 

 the bay primeval stirps, including the domestic races 

 of both regions, and extending to the Rhine, are all 

 more or less intermixed with the black, the grey, 

 and the dun ; they bear more particularly the form 

 and characteristics of the last mentioned, and there- 

 fore we shall revert to these more anomalous races 

 when we review the smaller unassignable breeds. 



THE WHITE OR GREY STOCK 

 PLATES IV. AND VIII. 



is one, as before observed, which resided and still 

 resides in part on the territory where we have 

 noted it in the most ancient existing historical 

 records. We have shown it on the plateau of 

 Pamere, * on the steppes north of the Euxine, in 

 ancient Armenia and Cilicia, and may add the 

 country of the Argyppei, a nation, as the name im- 

 ports, of riders on white horses, and as they were 

 feeders on mulberries, may denote Kaubul or mo- 

 dern Abassia, where there are still numerous herds 

 and several high-bred studs of white and dappled 

 grey horses, forming the majority of those men- 



* Touching the western border of the Kalkas, where the 

 villous race is abundant. It is remarkable that the white horse 

 of Vishnou should bear the name of Kalki. 



