Markham and de Grey ) all which have treated of the 

 Art o( Breeding more at Jarge. 



Firft therefore 1 wonJd advile you to buy either an 

 Arahian Horfe (if you can procure him,) a Spamard^ a 

 Turkj, or a Barb, for ]?our Stallion, that is well Jhafdy 

 of a good Co/<7«r to beautify your Race, and well 

 markld^ to agree with molt iner.s Opinions -, though 

 otherwife they are not fo (ignificative as Mr. Bhinde- 

 •vile, and his- Italian Autbor Frederigo Grijfofie, would 

 have us believe. 



To^begin with the Arabian -, Merchants, and other 

 Gentlemen that have traveii'd thofe parts, report, 

 that the right yJrabians are valuM at an incredible, as 

 well as an ifttolerabje Rate ^ being ppiz'd a( Five 

 hundred, others lay at o;?r, tvpo, and three thoufand 

 Pounds an Horfe •, that the Arabs are as careful of 

 keeping the Genealogies of their Horfes, as Princes in 

 keeping their Pedigrees -, that they keep them with 

 Medals; 2.nd that each Son's Portion is ufually two 

 Suits of Arms^twoCymetcrs, and o«<? of thefe HorfeS. 

 The Arabs boaft, that they will ride fourfcore miles a 

 dav, without drawing Bitt : which has been per- 

 form'd by feveral of our EngUjh Horfes» But much 

 more was atchiev'd by an Highway-man's Horie -^ 

 who hj^ving taken a Booty, on the jatni day rode him 

 from London to Torh^, being One hundred and Fifty 

 Miles. Nocwithllanding their great value, and the 

 difficulty in brieging them from Scanderoan to Eng^ 

 land by Se,i ; yet by the care, and at the charge of 

 fome Breeders in the North, the Arabian Horfe is no 

 ftranger to thofe parts ; where Perfons who have the 

 curiofjty, may fas I prefume) at this Day lee fome of 

 the Race, if not a true Arabian Stallion. 



The Spanijlj Horie (according to the Duke of Neve- 

 caftle) is the Noblefl Horfe in the world, and the moft 

 Beautiful that can be , no Horfe is fo curioiilly Ihap'd 



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