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carried this animal with them, which is now 

 become wild, and numerous herds of them are 

 found in the Llanos, these generally, we are 

 told, are of a chestnut bay, and have recumbent 

 ears. Those that are found wild in the Steppes 

 of Tartary, have the hair of the mane and tail 

 very long and thick, and their ears also are 

 recumbent. A writer, quoted below, has con- 

 cluded from some observations of Xenophon and 

 Varro, that the military horses of the Greek and 

 Roman republics were much nearer those in the 

 wild state, as just described, than in a subse- 

 quent period. 1 In all the war horses, however, 

 sculptured in Trajan's and Antoninus' pillars, 

 the ears are erect, as I think also are those of 

 the Elgin marbles in the British Museum at 

 least, none of them appear to be recumbent ; and 

 in some figured in Hamilton's JEgyptiaca? from 

 sculptures at Medinet Abou, in Egypt, which 

 are still more ancient, the ears of all are erect. 



In England we have two breeds of swine, one 

 with large flapping or pendent ears ; of this 

 description are those fattened in the distilleries 

 in and near London ; the other with small, erect, 

 acute ears, common in the county of Suffolk. 



When it is considered, that the varieties of 

 the above animals with erect ears appear to 

 exhibit altogether a better character, if I may 



1 Roulin. Anim. Domest. Ann. Des. Sc. Nat. xvi. 26. 



2 PI. viii. ix. 



