102 ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL. 



the fpecics) fuch complaints are certainly 



juft. 



Of the Horses of foreign countries, 

 I have a right to fay but little from my own 

 experience ; and the relations of travellers, 

 and of thofe who have improved upon them, 

 arei intituled to little dependance, fince none 

 of them, that I can difcover, were good jockies. 

 The celebrated Mr. Bruce, who plumes him- 

 felf upon his ignorance of the turf, tells us of 

 an excellent race of Horfes, which he found at 

 Sennaar, fixteen hands high, at four years old ; 

 if they continue to grow in that country, as 

 long as with us, they mull be, no doubt, ftately 

 animals at fix ; only fomewhat difficult to 

 mount. It is pretty generally agreed, however, 

 of that traveller, that he was given to make 

 ufe of the common privilege ; to which, if 

 we add his acknowledged want of (kill in 

 Horfes, we (hall be juftified in fubtrac~ting 

 fomewhat from his account of the height of 

 thofe at Sennaar. 



Dr. Ruffel, in his natural hiftory of Aleppo, 

 gives us as particular, and fatisfaclory an ac- 

 count of the Horfes of the circumjacent coun- 

 tries, as could be expected ; and no doubt a 

 juft one, as far as it goes. He defcribes the 

 Turkifh Horfes of a large make, and martial 

 appearance ; the Arabs more (lender, and lefs 



fhewy, 



