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languages the number dwindles down from 62 

 in Swedish and the same number in Danish to 

 9 only in Norwegian. 



In Hungarian we find 3 ; in Polish, 8 ; in 

 Russian, 21 ; while the Eastern languages are 

 represented by Persian, 8 ; Arabic, i ; and Hin- 

 dustani, I. In regard to these the numbers 

 are probably under-estimated ; for we should 

 certainly expect to learn that in Persian and Arabic 

 a good many treatises on horses, not easily accessible, 

 are well known to Oriental scholars. 



These statistics are of interest, as showing not 

 only the importance attached to the history of the 

 horse in all ages, but the shares in which dififerent 

 nations have contributed to the literature of the 

 subject in all its branches. What a splendid 

 monograph of the horse might now be prepared 

 from the materials which have been shown to exist ! 



