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Horse, and his relation to the Percheron, will not be uninteresting to our 
ers: 
“I commence with the Arab crossing. Two motives haye induced me to follow this classifi- 4 

cation: 
Ist. Tl UN ia PEREA a ya 4 
nd. ie Percheron shows e a very great analogy, by his coat, conformation, ¢ 
race, ee ae osition an rance, to the Arab, a whic h hes seems s;to be t the: sae n hoii 

standing ain aiexences, a result of time, clim 
in which ate gst 

P hibit h the Arab numerous marks of 
a common parentage and relationship: sity marks are very obvious. A Pere 
Percheron, for some still exist (as the famous Toulouse of w Se ame, of Ecouche; and the 
renowned Jean-le-Blane of M. Miard, of Vem near Sap he department of the Orne, ett 
ete.), placed alo ngside of an n Arab, cate resents, notwithstanding his nee vier and grosser 
analogies wi i triki re easily m undoubted 
e Percheron of the primitive ich has a gray inka vee the Arab; an 
dant and silky mane, a fine skin, and a large, prominent, a expressive eye; a broad 
dilated nostrils, and a full ami deep chest, although, net girt with him, as 
Pv ays lacking in n fulness; more bony and leaner limbs, and less jaa with hair 
He x6 nape mesa der, nor that swan-like neck 
which distinguishes the Arab; but it must not be pfeg that for ages he has been employed 
purty ’ ony frame an ical structure, 
hin ji to perform. He has not, 1 agait 
acknowledge, such a “ane ekin as the Arab, wor his prettily rounded, oval, 


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ture gives him for a covering a thicker skin and a warmer coat, and that he has been forage 
stepping upon a moist, clayey soil, 
In all that remains in aR we aps ae a heavy Arab, modified and remodelled climate 
and peculiar circumstances. He has remained mild and laborious, like his sire; 
up like him, in the midst ak the Fons and, like him, he possesses in 
— " easy a acclimation; He acquire S this in the mids t of the numerous mig 

the 
desert, E final comparison, which has not, as yet, been oe noticed, i s Ç that, re i 


paese S 
wo pe a word, the S notwithstanding the ages which separate them, 


pka vei er Arab. if 
p hisstenn oe 3 s the thought of new — 
rder to form a more e easy estimate of their melon it will not be without int ; 
But i 
elassity the hee rses with _Feferenge to their r or igin. This cian sification produces t 
tinct groups: pound horse. > pe 
er 
The Primitive Horse, oriental in its origin, is the pure Arabian horse; no oth 

During the time of the crusaders, as we erata coor pen ei our ees part, in i all parts 
of wars an bY 
of the globe, Although at first the he ibe pate their isietint 
being bred in-and-in, these exiles w re placed under different Tatitudesy in degene™ 
led to the “ 
Wt q upon which 
He å ay wartion as ns soil 


acy of th race. 
oe sche were foaled was colder, poorer, and more inhospitable set the horse îs 
j s sire and dam. ne the. 
‘This n We sec it every day before our eyes in in studying . 
changes ae our French br reeds t the danaa undergo when transpo 
other. It might, however, be thought that these new hitita des, these ne 
aifter Dut Heie Proin tbose in Which they lived. 





om the di erence o! 
whieh he has been renomee being an beg nature itself, we call th the p 
Horse. Her e it is proper nature always is. If it Hove to bis wants - 
horse for the worse, it modies him, however, under conditions better mr to live and tono 
and enables gud 
trials 
ish himself upon the food that the locality is able ‘to furnish. Bubp itted to the 

