COMMON horse: 3*59 
as we are fold by Marcus Paulas, there are studg 
of ten thousand white mares all together, very fleet, 
and with the hoof so hard, that shoeing is unne- 
cessary. In these countries, they in general give 
their horses the same treatment that they give 
in Arabia, except that they litter them upon a bed 
of their own dung, dried in the sun, and then 
reduced to powder. When this-, which is spread 
under the horse about five inches thick, is moisten- 
ed, they dry it again, and spread it as before. The 
horses of these countries a good deal resemble 
each other. They are usually of a slender make, 
their legs fine, bony, and far apart ; a thin mane, 
a fine crest ; a beautiful head : the ear small and 
well pointed; the shoulder thin ; the side rounded, 
without any unsightly prominence ; the croup is 
a little of the longest, and the tail is generally set 
high. The race of horses, however, is much de- 
generated in Numidia ; the natives having been 
discouraged from keeping the breed up by the 
Turks, who seize upon all the good horses, with- 
out paying the owners the smallest gratuity for 
their care in bringing them lip. The Tingitanians 
and Egyptians have now, therefore, the fame of 
rearing the finest horses, both for size and beauty* 
The smallest of these last are usually sixteen hands 
high ; and all of them shaped, as they express it, 
with the elegance of an antelope. 
Next to the barb, travellers generally rank the 
Spanish genette. These horses, like the former, 
are little, but extremely swift and beautiful. 
The head is something of the largest ; the mane 
thick ; the ears long, but well pointed ; the eyes 
filled with fire ; the shoulder thickish, and the 
breast full and large. The croup round and 
large ; the legs beautiful, and without hair ; the 
pastern a little of the longest, as in the barb, and 
the hoof rather too high. Nevertheless, they move 
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