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invests the roots of their long hair." Comparing 

 tnis animal with the domestic horse, he further re- 

 marks, " both would^appear to have the same origin, 

 yet the circumstance of their eluding every attempt 

 to tame them when caught, and their uniform 

 speckled colour of fawn and white, demonstrate them 

 to be a distinct species." Our own correspondence 

 with British officers, stationed in the higher parts 

 of India, bears testimony to similar conclusion, do- 

 mestication excepted, for the Kiang no doubt is 

 amenable to the same laws as the rest of the genus, 

 and indeed almost every other highly organized 

 animal. Applicable to the present species, we be- 

 lieve there is sufficient proof to view the great pro- 

 portion of pied horses all over China, and even so 

 far south as the Indian Archipelago ; and we con- 

 tend, moreover, that to this form should be referred 

 the steeds of the Centaurs, which we noticed as first 

 penetrating westward, and were progenitors of the 

 Thessalian. They are pointedly noticed in the Scrip- 

 tures,* and again celebrated under the name of Par- 

 thian, then, as ridden by the Tahtar conquerors of 

 Saracen Persia ; they were extolled by the writers of 

 the classic and the middle ages, sung by troubadours, 

 figured in stained glass in the Indian illuminated 

 battles of Aurungzebe, and immortalized by the 

 pencils of Raffaelle, Titian, and Guido, who took 

 their types of them from the Ardean, or, since 

 called, Borghese breed ; which, however, has been 

 latterly neglected, and we understand is now nearly 

 * Zachariah, i. 8., and other authorities before noticed. 



