COMMON lidliSK., 
Tartars copulate and breed with the wild horses, 
which carry them off : the offspring produced by 
this intermixture are distinguishable by their co- 
lours. In Spanish America; there are vast herds 
of wild horses. But they are known to have been 
originally introduced by the Spaniards, when they 
first conquered that country. Being suffered to 
run about in those extensi ve and unappropriated 
fields and forests i without restraint or culture, 
they have become strangers: to man, and have mul- 
tiplied so amazingly, that they are now spread 
overall the south of the American continent, nearly 
to the (.Straits' of Magellan. The inhabitants of 
those regions are not without arts for taking them. 
When taken, they are easily famed ; and though 
suffered to return to their former state of freedom, 
they never afterwards forget their masters. An- 
tient authors mention wild* horses as inhabitants' 
of many^iUier countries. Herodotus speaks of a 
race of white wild horses that were found on the 
banks of the river Hypanis in Scythia, and men- 
tions another* tribe in the north of Thrace; whose 
hair was five inches long all over the body. Strabo 
speaks of wild horses on the Alps, and in Spain. 
Cardan, who visited Scotland in the minority of 
queen Mary, and had the honour of curing Hamil- 
ton, archbishop of St. Andrew’s, of a dangerous 
disease, relates, that wild horses then abounded in 
his country, and in the Orkney isles. And, in- 
deed, we are told, that in the Highlands of Scot- 
land, many of that small breed of horses/known 
in the low countries by the name of shelties, still 
run about, almost wild, among the hills, in a state 
very little different from that of the wild horses in 
Smith America. It is worth notice, that the fa- 
bulous records in which the earlier history of an- 
tient Greece is preserved/ represent horses as hav- 
ing been first domesticated by the inhabitants of 
