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was introduced here at the Saracen conqueft, and have beerr 
preferved unmixed to this day. They feem to be a diftinét 
animal from the Arabian horfe, fuch as I have feen in the: 
plains of Arabia Deferta, fouth of Palmyra and Damafcus, 
where I take the moft excellent of the Arabian breed to be, 
in the tribe of Mowalli and Annecy, which is about lat. 36° ;- 
whilft Dongola and the dry country near it feems to be the, 
center of excellence for this nobler animal, fo that the: 
bounds within which the horfe is in its greateft perfection: 
feems to be between the degrees of lat. 20°, and 36°, and. 
between long. 30° eaft from the meridian of Greenwich to, 
the banks of: the Euphrates.. For this extent Fahrenheit’, . 
thermometer is never below 50° in the night, or in the day. 
below 80°, though it may rife to 120°at noon in the fhade, at- 
which point horfes are not affected by the heat, but. will 
breed as they do at Halfaia, Gerri, and Dongola, where the: 
thermometer rifes to thefe degrees,. Thefe countries, from: 
what has been faid, muft of courfé be a dry; fandy defert, 
with little water, producing fhort, or no grafs, but only roots, 
which are blanched like our cellery, being always covered: 
with earth, having no marfhes or fwamps, fat foapy earth, , 
or mould.” 
I never heard of wild horfés in any of thefe parts. A= 
rabia Deferta, where they are faid to be, feems very ill cal-- - 
culated: to conceal them, it being flat without wood or co-- 
ver, they muft therefore be conftantly in views and Ines - 
ver heard any perfon of veracity, fay they ever. faw «wilds 
horfes in Arabia. Wild affes I Waive! frequently feen alive, 
but never dead, in neck, head, face, and tail very like ours, 
anly their fkins are flreaked, not fpotted. The zébra is 
found nowhere in Abyflinia, but in the SW. extremity of 
Kuara. , 
