of the elephant being employed for draught except in Ceylon, where 

 one is yoked to a huge car for hauling materials for the construction of 

 roads and other public works. In towns, and on frequented highways, 

 the elephant, from his unwieldy size and uncouth form, becomes a 

 public nuisance, and it may safely be anticipated that, with good roads, 

 its use will eventually be discontinued. 



The horse is the universal hero of labour, suited for all kinds of 

 work, and for their performance in every climate. His almost ex- 

 clusive employment in labour is in itself evidence of a high civilization. 

 With ourselves, by careful breeding, we have been able to produce 

 races adapted to every assignable purpose — some that can draw three 

 times as much as the elephant can carry, and some that are fleeter 

 than the antelope. He is the only animal that enters the field of battle 

 with us. He even partakes " the rapture of the strife," and without 

 him no great decisive battle could be fought, or, in fact, ever has been 

 fought. "The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the 

 " valley and rejoiceth in his strength, He hurries on to meet the 

 " armed men, — he mocketh at fear, — he turneth not his back from the 

 '* sword. The quiver rattleth against him — the glittering spear and the 

 " shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage ; neither 

 "believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet calling a retreat. 

 " He saith among the trumpets, ha, ha ! and he sraelleth the battle afar 

 "off, and heareth the thunder of the captains and the shouting," 

 That passage, as you all know, is taken from the Book of Job. I 

 cannot help thinking that the animal so well described in it, with glory 

 in his nostril, and pawing with impatience for the charge, must have 

 been no other than a true Arab. In fact, the scene of the Book of 

 Job is laid in Edom or Idumea, which is now, and always has been, a 

 portion of Arabia, although in contact with Syria. The patriarch was 

 in reality a powerfel Arab sheik, or independent prince, in possession 

 of sheep, camels, and asses, by thousands ; and the mention of the 

 sword, and the "glittering spear," implying a knowledge of malleable 

 iron, shows that his subjects were by no means such barbarians as were 

 the Mexicans and Peruvians when first seen by Europeans. In the 

 enumeration of the Patriarch's stock, it will be seen that horses are not 

 named. Most probably they were rare at the time, and the luxury of 

 the chieftains, and would no more be named than their wardrobe or 

 jewellery and trinkets. 



You will have observed that in the passage I have quoted from the 

 Book of Job, I have omitted that part of the description of the horse 



