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variety; besides the walk, the trot, and gallop, movements 

 too well known to need description, some horses raise both 

 legs at one side together, and bring them to the ground toge- 

 ther, the two legs on the opposite side executing the same 

 motion ; this is called ambling : some horses gallop with the 

 fore-legs, and trot with the hind ; this is a very defective 

 gait, and argues a weakness in the hind quarter : other horses 

 step with each leg separately in succession ; the left fore- 

 leg for example comes first, then the left hind-leg, then the 

 right fore, and then the right hinder : this is a very secure 

 gait in rough roads. There are many other artificial move- 

 ments which are the result of education ; but it would be 

 foreign to our purpose to notice them, or many other par- 

 ticulars of the manage, which have but a remote connexion 

 with the natural history of the Horse, 



The Horse is susceptible of very great attachment for the 

 human species when properly treated. A good deal, how- 

 ever, that is repeated on this head in authors, borders some- 

 what on the marvellous: as for instance the stories of Buce- 

 phalus ; the anecdote of a horse belonging to a Scythian 

 Prince, which trampled to death the murderer of his mas- 

 ter ; and that of the horse of Nicomedes, which through 

 grief for his death suffered itself to perish of hunger ; the 

 following anecdote, however, on this subject is well authen- 

 ticated : — ' 



The Tyrolese in one of their insurrections, in 1809, 

 took fifteen Bavarian Horses, they mounted them with as 

 many of their men ; but in a rencontre with a squadron of 

 the regiment of Bubenhoven, when these horses heard the 

 trumpet and recognised the uniform of the regiment, they 

 set off* at full gallop and carried their riders, in spite of all 

 their efforts, into the Bavarian ranks, where they were 

 made prisoners. 



Numerous anecdotes of this description have been re- 

 lated by many writers and are very generally known : one 



