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tribes, mentioned by Pnf. Rhetor, fo that there is much 

 reafon to conclude that the Jrt came originally from 

 the Huns and Hungarians. What is more remarkable, is, 

 that to this very day, a great many Hungarians travel 

 every year into Germany and Poland, in order to caf- 

 trate any animal that is offered to them, which they 

 do for a fmall reward. They come to the very Ballick 

 every fummer, and are very expert in their bufmefs. 



Page 141." They are fold to the Ruffians," Sec] The 

 horfes of this people are purchafed by the Ruffians, 

 who every year buy fo great a number as forty thou- 

 fand, which are brought to Mofcow, and fold at a low 

 rate. They are pot-bellied, lean, their fkins being 

 hard and coarfe ; their necks flefliy and clumfy, with 

 large heads, and would be defpifed and rejefted by all 

 who fee them, were they not known to be endowed with 

 great fpeed, and able to bear labour and want of food 

 to a great degree. Iter in Mofchov. Auguftini Baronis 

 de Mayerberg, A. D. i 6 6 i , p. 32. 



Page r47. "The horfes of Sweden," &c.] Englifh 

 horfes, fays an author who wrote many years ago; 

 efpecially for the Pad, are of great efteem in Sweden ; 

 the horfes of the country being generally of a fmall 

 breed, and 'Trotters, fomewhat like our Welch and Scotch 

 nags : the Queen and fome great Lords have a breed of 

 large and handfome horfes, but not many of them. 



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