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devastation and terror around ; while the horses appear 

 to have been managed with great dexterity. For a 

 long time oxen alone were used for the plough, but 

 towards the end of the tenth century, horses were 

 sometimes employed. The earliest' notice of their use 

 in field labour, is said to be on one of the pieces of 

 tapestry worked at Bayeux, in the year 1066 ; it has 

 the figure of a man driving a horse, to which a harrow 

 is attached. From that period to the present, this 

 animal has been treated with various degrees of 

 attention, until it has become fully and eminently 

 adapted to various and important purposes. Some 

 interesting particulars will now be given of different 



THE CAY ALKY HORSE. 



In adverting to the employment of the horse in war, 

 the mind at once recurs to the sublime passage in the 

 book of Job : 



" Hast thou given the horse strength? 

 Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? 

 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? 

 The glory of his nostrils is terrible. 



