1-8 THE HISTORY AND ART 



merit ; being thought, when tranfported into foreign 

 countries, to get colts which excel their fires in good- 

 nefs : for this reafon they are valuable in fluds, cfpc- 

 cially if they are of the larger growth, the greater 

 part being but of a middling fize. The jilgerines * are 

 faid not to like to caftrate their horfes, but only fqueeze 

 their teflicles when they are about three months old, 

 which renders them incapable of propagation. 

 * It is thought that the horfes of the kingdom of Mo- 

 rocco are the beft, and next to them a breed called the 

 Mnuitain barbs. The horfes of thefe climates, as well 

 as of all hot countries, have always fliort and fleek 

 coats, with foft and fraooth hair. The peculiar merit 

 of the Barbs confifts in their being very fure-footed, 

 and of tempers moil amiably gentle, as well as very 

 docile and attentive. Their walk is free and bold, 

 their gallop very rapid, thefe being the only paces 

 they know ; for they are never taught to amble, nor 

 permitted to trot, their owners looking upon thefe 

 paces as vulgar and ignoble. 



The horfes throughout the Levant have their hoofs 

 very hard, as well as thofe of Perfia and Jrabia, whofc 

 horfes are all fliod, but ought to have light and thin 



fhoes. 



T'urkey, Jrabia, and Perjia all follow the fame rules 

 in dreffing, feeding, and treating their horfes. They 

 expofe their dung in the fun, and when it is fo dried 

 as to become a fine and foft powder, they fpread it 



* Shaw's Travels, chap. 2. 



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