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REMOUNT OF CAVALRY IN INDIA. 
System of Animals, or they never would so long have continued 
their system, in which we find nothing but indiscriminate crossing. 
We find M. De L’Etang, after the stud had been established thirty 
years, state, “ It is much to be regretted that so little attention 
was given to the preservation of pedigrees in the Poosah stud. 
An acknowledgment that the better mares were small and defec- 
tive, and the inutility of breeding from small stock in general, hav- 
ing the most blood .” — Appendix to List of Stallions. 
The climate of India is not unfavourable to breeding horses and 
other animals, provided the breeds are kept pure; for, in those pro- 
vinces where this has been the case, the horses, as well as neat 
cattle, sheep, and camels, retain their characteristics of size and sub- 
stance, depending on the original breed, the climate, and feeding : 
in the different parts of a country of such extent more should not 
be expected ; 
“ For there the brightest sunsets glow, 
And there the warmest breezes blow. 
This lovely land, this Indian clime, 
Was beauteous from the birth of Time.” Peter Penne. 
The pilgrim in the east wrote, however, only twenty lines from 
this, 
“ Beauteous they are, but lovelier still 
The land that I may never see 
Again ; but still my heart shall be, 
England, my native isle, with thee I” 
In those parts where horses are bred, the mean temperature of 
the earth is 74° Fahr., the hot winds 120° and even 140° ; which 
statement, l am sure, is quite sufficient to convince the physiolo- 
gist that the progeny of small Arab horses will not improve in 
size and substance, as they have done in the temperate climate of 
England, where the temperature is similar to that of the Himalaya 
mountains, 8000 feet above the level of the sea. An intelligent 
foreign writer, Quetehit, wrote on man, “ There is a type proper 
to a country and to the circumstances in which it is placed. Devia- 
tions from this type would be the product of causes purely acci- 
dental, which act either plus or minus with the same intensity, 
shewing its growth, weight, height, pulse.” All this is peculiarly 
striking to any one who has seen the inhabitants of the different 
parts of India ; and it applies, as I have stated, to horses, cattle, 
sheep, camels, & c. 
Mr. M. Martin, in his History of the British Colonies, goes far- 
ther than this. “ In considering the climate, this much is certain, 
that, in the low land of tropical countries, no attentive observer of 
Nature will fail to witness the power exercised by the moon on 
the seasons, and over animal and vegetable nature. I have seen 
