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in particular, related by Southey in his history of the late 

 Peninsular war, is very interesting. 



Education develops the powers of horses to a very con- 

 siderable extent ; a good Arab Horse will make a journey 

 of fifty leagues in twenty-four hours, and the Tartar Horses 

 frequently make journeys of many days without stopping, 

 except to eat of a few mouthfuls of barley : some of our 

 English racers have been known to run eighty feet in a 

 second, a speed almost surpassing the swiftness of the wind. 



The moral qualities of horses are not less diversified 

 than their physical : some possess the most undaunted in- 

 trepidity ; others are so timid that everything affrights 

 them; some are distinguished for memory, for prudence, 

 and extreme susceptibility of education ; others on the con- 

 trary are giddy, obstinate, and dull: these differences should 

 certainly be deemed characteristic of races, for they are 

 permanent and hereditary ; but such points have, unfortu- 

 nately, not been sufficiently studied. 



Every country possesses certain races of horses, whose 

 characters depend on the localities that surround them, and 

 the wants of the inhabitants of each respective climate. 

 The Arabs have peculiarly devoted themselves to the de- 

 velopment and preservation of such qualities as fit the 

 Horse for the saddle, as lightness, vigour, and docility. In 

 agricultural countries, those races which are proper for 

 draught and labour have been especially attended to ; the 

 northern countries, where vegetation is abundant, have 

 produced horses of the largest size., the southern have 

 proved less favourable to the development of the body, 

 and more so to that of energy and vigour. 



We shall conclude this article on the species, by a brief 

 view of the different races. 



The Arab Horse is, without contradiction, the first in the 

 world; it may not, however, be considered handsome, ac- 

 cording to our general notions of the beauty of Horses: the 



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