60 THE HORSE. 



how Admiral Rous, with the knowledge 

 he possessed, could have asserted that all 

 the horses imported from the East during 

 the Stuart dynasty were pure bred Ara- 

 bians of the desert, whose pedigree could 

 be traced back two thousand years, and 

 that *'the English race-horse both on 

 male and female sides had descended 

 from these animals." 

 Barbs and jf [^ orenerallv admitted by travellers 



Arabians dis- o ./ J 



tinct breeds. ^|^^^ great differences exist between 

 Barbs and Arabians. The Duke of 

 Newcastle, in his work recently referred 

 to, evidently drew a great distinction 

 between a Barbary and an Arabian horse, 

 and gave his preference to the Barb. 

 Even at the present day we find dis- 

 tinctions made, not only between horses 

 bred in different countries, bat also be- 



