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and la general well formed about the shoulder, straight, 
backed, but droop considerably towards the haunches. They 
are exceedingly swift ; and as none of them are geldings, 
they possess great spirit, and are naturally fiery in their 
dispositions. 
The forehead of the Barb is generally long and slender, 
and his mane rather scanty ; his ears are small, beautifully 
shaped, and so placed on the forehead as to give him great 
expression ; his shoulders are tight, flat, and sloping back¬ 
wards , withers fine, and standing high; loins short and 
straight; flanks and ribs round and full, without producing 
in him too large a belly; his haunches are strong and 
elastic ; the croup is sometimes long to a fault; the tail is 
placed high; thighs well turned and rounded; legs clean 
and beautifully formed, with the hair thin, short, and silky; 
the tendons are detached from the bone, but the pasterns 
are frequently too long, and bending ; the feet are rather 
small, but sound for the most part. 
THE EGYPTIAN HORSE. 
These horses are not at all to be compared with those of 
Persia and Arabia. They have neither the fire nor shape 
of these breeds, and are said to be thick in the breathing. 
These bad qualities, in all probability, arise from the humid 
atmosphere, and the low alluvial flats on which they are 
pastured. 
THE NUBIAN AND DONGOLA HORSES. 
Bruce says, “ The Nubian horses are beautiful and sym¬ 
metrical in their parts, of large size, great strength, and 
most active, agile, nervous, and elastic in their movements, 
capable of great endurance of fatigue, docility of temper and 
seeming attachment to man, beyond any other domestic ani- 
