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ly, and so have most courts of peculiar ju- 

 risdiction. 



EQ.FITY, of redemption. Upon a mort- 

 gage, although the estate upon non-pay- 

 ment of the money becomes vested iu 

 the mortgagee, yet equity considers it on- 

 ly a pledge for the money, and gives the 

 Earty a right to redeem, which is called 

 is equity of redemption. If the mort- 

 gagee is desirous to bar the equity of re- 

 demption, he may oblige the mortgager 

 either to pay the money, or be foreclosed 

 of his equity, which is done by proceed- 

 ings in the Court of Chancery by bill of 

 foreclosure. 



EQUUS, the horse, in natural history, a 

 genus of mammalia of the order of Be Muse. 

 Generic character : upper fore-teeth pa- 

 rallel, and six in number ; in the lower 

 jaw six, rather more projecting ; tusks on 

 each side, in both jaws, remote from the 

 rest ; feet with undivided hoofs. There 

 are six species, and very many varieties. 

 E. caballus, or the common horse. 

 The elegance, grace, and usefulness of 

 the horse entitle him to particular atten- 

 tion, and certainly confer upon him a 

 pre-eminence above all other quadru- 

 peds. There are few parts of the world 

 in which horses are not to be found ; and 

 in various parts of Africa they maintain 

 their original independence, and range 

 at pleasure in herds of several hundreds, 

 having always one or more as an advanc- 

 ed guard, to alarm against approaching 

 danger. These alarms are expressed by 

 a sudden snorting, at which the main body 

 gallop off with the most surprising 

 swiftness. In the south of Siberia also, 

 and at the north-west of China, wild 

 horses are to be found in considerable 

 abundance ; and it is stated, that differ- 

 ent herds will carry on hostilities, and 

 one party frequently surround an enemy- 

 inferior in number, and' conduct them to 

 the hostile territory, manoeuvring perpe- 

 tually to baffle all their attempts to 

 escape. On each bank of the river Don, 

 towards the Pains Moeotis, horses are 

 found wild, but are supposed to be the 

 descendants of domesticated horses, be- 

 longing to the Russian army occupied in 

 the siege of Asoph, at the close of the 

 seventeenth century- In America, like- 

 wise, horses are found wild in vast abun- 

 dance, sweeping the extensive plains of 

 Buenos Ayres, and the Brazils particu- 

 larly, in immense herds. They are ta- 

 ken by the inhabitants, by throwing, with 

 great dexterity, a noosed cord over their 

 heads, at full speed ; and are often de- 

 stroyed merely for their hides, as an arti- 



cle of commerce. These American hor- 

 ses are the descendants of those which 

 were introduced by the Spaniards on 

 their discovery of America, as none ,jre- 

 viously existed on that continent. They_ 

 are, in general, small and clumsily form- 

 ed, and their height is rarely above four- 

 teen hands. In the deserts of Arabia, it 

 has been stated by several writers, wild 

 horses are extremely abundant ; but 

 Shaw and Sonnini, with greater probabi- 

 lity, confine their appearance in that 

 country to the borders of the desert, the 

 latter not supplying materials for their 

 subsistence. Mr. Bruce mentions the 

 horses of Nubia as unequalled in beauty, 

 and far superior to those of Arabia. Of 

 the former little notice has been taken 

 but from that observant traveller ; of the 

 latter the fame has long been distinguish- 

 ed ; and the Arabian horse, celebrated 

 for his beauty and swiftness, has been 

 long exported to the most remote coun- 

 tries of Europe, to correct and improve 

 the native breeds. In Arabia, almosrv ve- 

 ry man possesses his horse, whica lives 

 in the same apartment, or tenl, with his 

 family, and is considered as constituting 

 by no means the lest important part of 

 it. Harsh and violent applications, such 

 as the whip or spur, are rarely inflicted 

 on it. It is fed with the most regular at- 

 tention, and cleaned with incessant assi- 

 duity. The Arab occasionally appears to 

 carry on a conversational intercourse 

 with his horse, and his external attach- 

 ment to this animal exciies in return a 

 corresponding affection. The horse be- 

 ing purified under his management from 

 every vicious propensity, and guarded a- 

 gainst casual injury with the utmost soli- 

 citude, suffering the infant children to 

 climb its legs without the slightest at- 

 tempt to kick or shake them off. The 

 Arabs never cross the breeds of horses, 

 and presei've the genealogies of these ani- 

 mals for a considerable number of ge- 

 nerations. The horses of Barbary are in 

 high reputation, also, for speed and ele- 

 gance, asiire likewise those of Spain. In 

 various parts of the East, as in India and 

 in some parts of China, there exists a 

 race of these animals, scarcely exceeding 

 the height of u large mastiff, and with 

 their diminutive size are generally con- 

 nected not a little intractability und mis- 

 chievousness. In no country of the 

 globe has the breeding of the horse been 

 attended to on more enlarged and philo- 

 sophic principles than in Great Britain ; 

 and with such success have the efforts 

 of the English on this subject been at- 



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