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mah ;" but that the trade with the Arabians and all the 

 princes of Kedar, was in " Lambs, and Rams, and Goats." 



Although the Jews, on their first entrance into Palestine 

 from the south, encountered no horses, yet, no sooner did 

 they come into contact with the nations to the north, than 

 they were met by warlike enemies possessed of horses and 

 chariots. But these nations approached the countries of the 

 great region of the Asiatic Horse, whence, doubtless, they 

 derived their horses, and not from Africa, with which they 

 could have no intercourse, nor from Arabia, which had no 

 horses. We must come, then, to the conclusion, that Arabia, 

 and the southern deserts of Syria, were not countries of the 

 subjugated horse at a period posterior to the historical era, 

 and must be supposed to have derived the horses which 

 they possessed in a subsequent age, not from the south, but 

 from the great Ofncina Equorum in the north. It was from 

 contiguity to this region of the Horse that the great empires 

 of Assyria and Persia so early became nations of conquerors 

 and horsemen ; and we may believe that the people of Nor- 

 thern Syria derived the horses with which they encountered 

 Joshua and the Jewish infantry from the same source. From 

 other documents we learn that Asia Minor, from the earliest 

 times, was a country of horses ; and these, we must believe, 

 were derived from the north, and not from the south. The 

 conclusion, further, which we may draw from these histo- 

 rical notices, sacred and profane, is, that the Egyptians de- 

 rived their horses from the vast continent which they them- 

 selves inhabited, rather than from a region from which they 

 were separated by a tract of country in which the Horse did 

 not exist in the first ages. In the high lands of Central 

 Africa, at this day and for ages, are the Gallas, and innume- 

 rable tribes of nomadic horsemen, whose horses we have as 

 much reason to regard as indigenous to Africa as those 

 which inhabit the wilds of Tartary are to Asia ; and we may 

 reasonably believe, that the Horse, like other animals fitted 



