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from analogy of qualification the three claffes 

 may be properly enough compared with our 

 racers, hunters, and common bred horfes. 1 he 

 didinftive appellations of the Arab horfes are, 

 Kehilani or Cocklani, Kehidifchi or Guidefki, 

 and Aiiicki. The firft, or Cocklani, are the 

 on<j[inal c^enus, bred in tlie middle or mountain- 

 ous country, where it is faid a few are yet lo be 

 found in the wild, or natural (late. The Arabs 

 pretend to have pedigrees of this illuftrious 

 race, upwards of two thoufand years old ; but 

 whether their private records accord with truth 

 exa611y or not, is of little moment, fmce the 

 antiquity and character of the Mountain Ara- 

 bian horfe has the fulleft fanftion of both an- 

 cient hiftory and modern experience. The 

 Atticki, or inferior breed, m.ay probably have 

 been the original produce of tl;e low country, 

 and the middle variety may have refulted from 

 a mixture of jnountain and low country flock. 

 The Arabians are feidom willing to part with 

 their beft mares, at any price ; and the value of 

 a true bred one, wliether horfe or mare, is faid 

 to amount to feveral hundred pounds in the 

 country. 



The Arabian horfes are fed with dates, milk, 

 and corn ; it is not to be fuppofed, that in fuch 

 a country, they have the ample allowance of 

 corn, ufual in this ; neverthelefs it is confidently 

 afierted, that the fuperior breed of them will 



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