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under them inftead of litter, continuing to dry it, as 

 often as it is infefted by the addition of frefli dung 

 falling from the animal. 



This dryed dung has the effecfl upon the fkin, which 

 powder has upon human hair, and gives it a moll 

 beautiful glofs and luflre. 



Turkey polTefTes a great variety of horfes. Arabians^ 

 Tartars, Greek, Hungarian, and others, befides their own 

 natural breeds. The laft arc handfome, and elegantly 

 fliaped, have a great deal of fpirir, are fwift, and have 

 many agreeable qualities, but are too tender and deli- 

 cate. They are unequal to fatigue, have weak appe- 

 tites, and are foon agitated and diftrefTed. Their fkins 

 are foft, and fo quick of feeling, that they cannot bear 

 the curry-comb, for which reafon their keepers ufe 

 only the brufli, and wafli them : though beautiful, 

 and of a llriking figure, they are very inferiour to the 

 Arabian horfes, nor to be compared with the Perlian, 

 which, after the Arabian, are the fineft and bell horfes 

 of all the Eall. Nor are they fo well proportioned as 

 the Barbs, their necks being ufually weak, and too 

 llender, their carcafes long, and their legs too delicate 

 and fmall : they neverthelefs are capable of much la- 

 bour, and furniflied with unfailing wind. Nor ought 

 we to be furprifed at this account, for it is a truth, 

 that in all hot climates, the bones of animals are more 

 folid and clofe than in colder lituations ; and this is the 

 caufe that the Ihank-bone of horfes born in warm cli- 

 mats, is of a lefs diameter than thofe of horfes of 



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