HISTORY OF THE HORSE. 



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mal, indeed, as unlike as possible to the low-statured, delicate- 

 limbed, small-headed Arabs and barbs of modern days, with 

 their basin-faces, large full eyes, and long, thin manes, from 

 which the blood-horse of our times has derived his peculiar 

 excellence. The same remarks may, in the main, be made as 

 to the Greek and Roman horse, from 

 the representations which have come 

 down to us. The English blood-horse, 

 beingconfessedl^ 

 the most perfect 

 animal of hig 

 race in the whole 

 world, both for 

 speed and endur- 

 ance, and the 

 American blood- 



THE SHETLAND POirr.— AK ENGLISH SPOKTINQ 8CEWB. 



horse directly tracing without mixture to English, and through 

 the English to Oriental parentage, some account of the former 

 variety may be of interest to the reader. 



It has already been remarked that large numbers of horses 

 were found in Britain at the first Koman invasion. It is to be 

 added, that Caesar ^thought them so valuable that he carried 



