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This renowned people employed for their ufe and 

 pleafure the horfes of every country, whofe merit and 

 qualities entitled them to their notice. Whatever 

 Greece admired and approved, was cherifhed and 

 efteemed by them ; who added the horfes of foreign 

 countries, to the breeds of their own, which in many 

 parts produced excellent, and which experience and 

 Judgment taught them to value. 



The Etrurian, or Tufcan breed is praifed by Oppian. 

 Volateranniis fays they were good in war, and celebrates 

 thofe of the iflands of Sardinia and Corfica, which were 

 adlive and bold, but apt to be unquiet and impatient. 

 The Venetian territories produced a noble and much 

 admired breed. Strabo fays, that Dionyfms, tyrant of 

 Sicily, eftabliflied a ftud in them, whence he drew his 

 fupplies for the public games, and that the fame of 

 this flud was very great, and fupported itfelf for a 

 long time *. 



Jgragasj a town of Sicily, otherwife called Jgrigeiitnm, 

 is highly extolled by Pindar, and Silius Italicus, for its 

 horfes ; and Sicily was always famous upon this ac- 

 count. 



Calpe is another place, whofe horfes were -prized by 

 the Romans. It is an hill in the fartheft part of Spain, 

 by the ftreights of Gibraltar, over ag^inft Jbyla on the 

 Barbary lide. Under this hill was once an ancient city, 

 called Tartejus, near the prefent city of Cadiz, which is 



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