98 THE HORSE. 



Our ancestors were rescued from their 

 dilemma by the importations from Aleppo 

 and Paris. Cannot we now, with all 

 our boasted knowledge of good shape, 

 &c,, find better animals in Asia than 

 our grandfathers did ? 

 The quaiifica- Many horsemen decry the good likely 



tionsofthe J J J 



to be derived from the Arabian. Last 

 century he was the sire of splendid stock ; 

 so he would be now if the best male and 

 female Kehilan specimens were selected 

 to mate with half-bred animals, so as to 

 produce a fine type of general utility horse, 

 for saddle or light harness. Englishmen of 

 the present day do not recognize the emi- 

 nent qualifications of the Arab, but he is 

 not without supporters, and he has a very 

 powerful one in Mr. Blunt, who writes 

 thus of him as a progenitor of stock : 



