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provided they are very enduring under severe 

 exertion, enabling the rider to travel long 

 distances in a few hours. But individual 

 horses have been occasionally brought to this 

 country with all the qualities of first-rate 

 hacks. 



One of the objections made here to Arab 

 horses is, that they trip in their walk, all, how- 

 ever, admitting that they don't trip in then- 

 other paces. The reason of their tripping in 

 their walk is their being tied from an early age 

 by their forefeet instead of the head. Thus, 

 in their walk they are compelled to step short, 

 being just what they ought not to do. When 

 not subjected to this barbarous treatment, 

 Arab horses, I believe, walk generally as well 

 as any others. 



There is now in London an Arab horse that 

 was obtained by a Spanish gentleman, his pre- 

 sent owner, many years ago by sending out a 

 competent person with a special mission to pur- 

 chase the best animals he could find in one of the 

 Eastern Deserts, and this horse was the result 

 of that mission. He is now very old, but his 

 form is quite unlike that of the Arabs usually 

 imported, while very like the portraits of se- 



