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Tho writer also inquires how it is that Arabs 

 purchased, presented, exported, &c. from the East to 

 Europe are now found to compare unfavourably with 

 the English thorough-bred. Partly for the same 

 reason that English horses purchased, presented, 

 exported, &c. to India, malgrc their superior size and 

 speed, compare unfavourably with the Arabs there. 

 There's a wheel within a wheel, as ancient perhaps as 

 one of the wheels in the vehicle mentioned in the 

 letter as Pharaoh's chariot for some of these impor- 

 tations and exportations. As to Pharoah's horses they 

 were far from being pure blood, if I am to take the 

 statues exhibited of them as fac-similes. Two English 

 Entires I once saw destined for India that I would 

 not have ridden on a Sunday (independent of which no 

 entire horses should ever have been sent to the studs 

 in that country : it was mares that were so much 

 needed) and I have seen Arabs nearly as indifferent 

 shipped from the East to Europe. With regard to 

 their " mysterious pedigrees " no sensible man should 

 attempt to dive into those : that should be left to the 

 orthodox, with heads brimful of faith, to unravel. A 

 French Cure solved the riddle for me as correctly as it 

 ever will be solved. He was imparting to me informa- 

 tion on the pedigree of his religion when I reminded 

 him of his promise to give me that of the Arab in his 



