ON THE HORSE. 
It may be allowed here to give some account 
of the horses of other countries, which derive 
their origin, or at lest receive their improve- 
ment from the Arabian kind, for wheresoever 
the Saracens spread their victorious arms, they, 
at the same time, introduced their generous 
race of horses. | 
Those of Persia are light, swift, and very like 
those of Arabia, but formed very narrow before: 
they are fed with chopped straw, mixed with 
barley, and instead of soiling, are fed with new 
eared or green barley for about fourteen or 
twenty days.* | 
iE thiopia has with some writers the credit of 
having originally furnished Arabia with its fine 
race of horses; but we believe the reverse, and 
that they were introduced into that empire by 
the Arabian princes, whose lineage to this day 
fills that throne. The horses of that country 
are spirited and strong, and generally of a 
black color: they are never used in long jour- 
nies, but only in battle or in the race, for all 
servile work is done by mules: the A’thiopians 
neyer shoe them, for which reason, on passing 
through stony places, they dismount, and ride 
on mules, and lead their horses ;{ so from this 
* Tavernier’s Travels, i. 145. + Ludolph. hist, Zithiop. 53, 
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