16* THE HORSE. 



and well pointed ; the shoulder thin ; the side rounded, 

 without, any unsightly prominence; the croup is rather 

 of the longest, and the tail is generally set high. 



In Numidia, the race of horses is very much degene- 

 rated, as the natives are discouraged from attending to 

 the hreed by the rapacity of the Turks, who seize upon 

 all the good ones they can find, without making the 

 owners the slightest compensation. 



The Spanish Genette is allowed by travellers to rank 

 next to the Barbary breed ; and, though they are small 

 in size, they are elegant in form, and swift in motion ; 

 their usual colour is black, or dark bay, and they sel- 

 dom have any white marks : they are said to possess 

 courage, obedience, grace, and spirit, in . a greater 

 degree than the Barb ; and for this reason they have 

 been preferred, as war-horses, to those of any other 

 country in the world. / 



The Italian horses boast of very little beauty, as they 

 have greatly neglected the breed : they have large 

 heads, thin necks, and are very unmanageable ; yet 

 their motion is elegant, and .they have a peculiar apti- 

 tude to prance. 



The Danish horses are so large in size, and so strong 

 in make, that they are preferred, for draught, to any 

 other breed ; yet some of them are perfectly well pro- 

 portioned ; but in general they are defectively formed, 

 though they all move well, and are found excellent both 

 for parade and war. There is great variety of colour 

 amongst them ; some are streaked in the manner of a 

 tiger, and others spotted like a leopard. 



Though the German horses are originally from the 

 Arabian and Barbary stocks, yet they are small and ill- 

 shaped, weak in their bodies, and have very tender hoofs. 



Hungarian horses are excellent both for draught and 

 saddle : but the Dutch breed are only calculated for 



