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Madras, to run four hundred miles in four con- 

 secutive days. Mr. Frazer relates, in his " Tartar 

 Journeys," a still more striking instance of the speed 

 and bottom of the Arab : a horse of that breed car- 

 ried him from Shiraz to Teheran, five hundred and 

 twenty-two miles in six days, remained three at rest, 

 went back in five days, remained nine at Shiraz, and 

 returned again to Teheran in seven days. Another 

 high-blooded Arabian carried Mr. Frazer from Tehe- 

 ran to Koom, eighty-four miles, in about ten hours. 

 A courier, whom Major Keppel fell in with between 

 Kermanshaw and Hamadan, places one hundred and 

 twenty miles distant from each other, performed that 

 journey, over a rugged mountainous tract, in little 

 more than twenty-four hours; and the next morn- 

 ing set off on the same horse for Teheran, two hun- 

 dred miles further, expecting to reach it on the 

 second day. 



It is, of course, among the wild races inhabiting 

 vast level tracts, such as are suitable to the habits 

 and constitution of the horse, that the power of 

 holding out long in the saddle is most assiduously 

 and most generally cultivated. There are tribes and 

 nations who may be said to spend the greater part of 

 their lives on horseback : the Kirghis, for instance, 

 in Central Asia; the Guachos, or countryfolk of 



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