14 The Horse FARraEK. 



seem to show that the horse was an inhabitant of the wes- 

 tern hemisphere, long before his discovery by the Egyptian. 

 The principal varieties of horses which are found in the United 

 States, are the Arabian ; the Morgan ; the Race-Horse ; the Can- 

 adian ; the Norman j the Draft Horse ^ and the American Trot- 

 ting-Ilorse. The mongrel known as the •'^ common horj-e," is 

 descended from the many different varieties and exhibit too many 

 different charactestics to admi'i of any particular description^ 



THE xVRABIAN HOKSE. 



This Horse deservedly occupies the very highest rank. As late 

 as the eleventh century, the Arabs possessed but few houses. 

 and these were of inferior quality. The horses they obtained 

 from Capadocia, and neighboring provinces, were preserv* d 

 with so much care, and so uniformly propagated from the be.-t 

 animals, that in the thirteenth century thej- had obtainet-l a just 

 and unrivalled celebrity. 



The Arabs divide their horses into three classes, the Aitec}n\ 

 or inferior breed, which are of little value ; the KudiscJii, ©r mixed 

 breed; and the Kochlani, or thorough-bred, whose pedigree^ li" 

 we credit the Arabian account, can be in some instances traccii 

 for two thousand years. 



The Arabian Horse would not be acknowledged by every 

 horseman to possess a perfect form. His head, however, is inim- 

 itable, and is uuiversally acknowledged to be unsurpassed in any 

 other breed. The shoulders, withers, loins and hips are excellent^ 

 The I'ect are good, the pasterns long and oblique, and the limbs 

 li'-ht. but well shaped and muscular. They are not adapted to 

 carrying heavy weights or draftSj and they are never put to such 

 service. 



