THE ARABIAN HORSE. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting teeth in each jaw. 

 The hoof folid and undivided. 



Synonims. 

 Equus caballus, Linn. Syjl. loo. 

 Generous Horse, Pennant Syn. Quad. 1. 

 Le Cheval, de Bujfon, iv. 174. tab. 1. 



THE Arabian Horfe is certainly the firft in the world, as well for the 

 beauty and elegance of his figure, as for his internal good qualities. It is 

 from this (lock that the nneft Horfes in Europe, Alia, and Africa have been 

 produced either immediately, or by means of Barbs. It is probable that 

 Arabia is not only the original country where the firft Horfes (a) were found, 

 but that it is likewife the belt fuited to the nature of that noble animal, as 

 the Arabs take particular care to preferve their breed in the utmoft purity, 

 and free from any foreign intermixture ; the Uriel attention which they pay 

 to the beauty and qualities of the individuals from which they breed, has 

 brought the Arabian Horfe to much greater perfection, than would have been 

 the cafe, had he been left in a rlate of nature, under the moft favourable 

 circumltances of climate. 



The Arabians know the value of their Horfes, and treat them 

 accordingly. They kifs and carefs them ; they adorn them with jewels, and 



(a) The Arabians call the Horfe Hejfan, from which, by corruption, the Engliih word Horfe may poffibly 

 have been derived. 



