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to an unprejudiced eye is confpicuous at once ; 

 and in all parade, and ftate-horfes it is acknow- 

 ledged : tho even here there is an attempt 

 made to improve nature by art : the hair mull 

 be adorned with ribbons ; and the bottom of 

 the tail clipped fquare, which adds heavinefs, 

 and is certainly fo far a deformity. 



The captain of an Englifh man of war gave 

 me an account fometime ago, of his landing in 

 one of the principal ftates of Barbary, while his 

 Ihip anchored in the bay. He was received by 

 the Dey (I think, of Tripoli) with great civi- 

 lity ; and among other things, faw his ftables. 

 They were lined with a very long, double row 

 of the moft beautiful Barb, and Arabian horfes. 

 He was ftruck with their beauty, to which 

 their grand flowing tails, combed, and oiled 

 in the niceft manner, were no little addition. 

 As he continued his walk through the ftud, he 

 came to a couple of horfes with nag-tails. On 

 inquiring into their hiftory, he found that they 

 were Englifh horfes, which had been prefented 

 to the Dey. The horfes themfelves were fit 

 to appear any where ; but the contrafl; of their 

 tails, he thought, in fuch company, made fo 

 very ftrange, and difgraceful an appearance, 

 that he was afliamed of his countrymen. The 



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