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V BRTEBB ATA. 





EGYPTIAN WAR-HORSES. FROM THE MONUMENTS. 



was a great nursery of hois s, sis i tary in modern times, and these animals have in all ages 



strength of these regions. 

 The ancient Paxth i was Q of the present Independent Tartary, and to its hors— 



The contiguous countries of Media and Armenia from 

 jes possessed Is of hors -. and they •wore cultivated in large numbers, fa 



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:he horse—- lapted alike to the climate and the sf •:: the people— 



* n i animal from time immemorial. The ancient Scyl .n on horseback was in 



feet almost th n of th his descendant, the modern . dmost lives on 



