OKDEB OF PACHYDEBMATA. 
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The Arab, pure from any alliance with other kinds, is the perfect 
type of beauty and perfection, morally as well as physically. 
The forehead is wide and flat, the orbital arches are prominent ; 
the orbital hollows are large and widely separated ; the face short, 
with a straight flattened and broad nose. The nostrils are wide 
and open, the lips thin, the cheeks flat, and the mouth small ; the 
ears small, straight, mobile, and placed at some distance from 
each other. The eye is prominent, bright, and energetic, and 
the tout ensemble is mild, yet proud. Such are the principal 
characteristics which may be noticed in the head of this noble 
animal. Its height varies in the East from fourteen to fifteen 
hands. Its colour is generally white, light grey, or flea-bitten, 
not uncommonly chestnut, rarely black or bay. Its straight neck 
and large and strong joints serve as points of connection to muscles 
of vast power, which stand out under a glossy, short-haired, silky 
coat, underneath which, in every direction, can be distinctly traced 
the veins. Its .chest is wide, its legs handsome and sinewy, and 
its foot is terminated by a hard hoof. Combining, as it does, 
both strength and agility, it is able to travel habitually immense 
distances, and is a better weight carrier for its height than any 
other race extant. As the Arabian Horse transmits to posterity 
its high qualities, together with its generous blood, it is looked 
upon as the source from which the whole equine race obtained 
improvement. 
Reared under its master’s tent, and forming a part of his 
family, the Arabian Horse manifests an unchangeable attach- 
ment and fidelity for him. The Arab, on his part, would make 
any sacrifice for the sake of his Horse, and in order to produce and 
preserve these admirable qualities, he deems no amount of labour 
trouble. The genealogy of each Horse is strictly preserved, and 
its details are as authentic as those of the proudest families of our 
nobility, for some of their pedigrees may be traced back in all due 
form for more than four centuries. The Arabs, indeed, go so far 
as to attribute a pedigree of two thousand years to the noble race 
of Horses which they call Kochlani. This has formed a theme for 
some of the most beautiful oriental verses. 
The following is the manner in which an Arab colt is reared. 
When a suckling, it is supplied with camel’s milk, in addition to 
that of its mother’s. As soon as its teeth are able to masticate, 
