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mal; and if these faculties can promise anything for a stallion, 
the Nubian is, above all comparison, the most eligible in the 
world. They are all kept monstrously fat. 5 '* They are black 
or white, but a vast proportion of the former to the latter; 
and a few bright bays, or inclining to sorrel. 
The horses of Dongola, like those of the district of Nubia, 
are of large size, standing full sixteen hands high; but the 
length of the body, from the shoulders to the quarters, is con¬ 
siderably less, so that their form is quite opposed to that of 
the Arabian or English thoroughbred horses, which are longer 
than they are high by some inches. Their necks are long 
and slender, and their crests very fine ; the withers sharp 
and high, producing a beautiful fore-hand. They are, how¬ 
ever, faulty in the breast, being too narrow, and the quarters 
and flanks too fiat, with the back somewhat bent. Bosman 
thinks them the most beautiful in the world. One of 
these horses was sold in Grand Cairo in 1816 , for a sum 
equivalent to one thousand pounds sterling. 
Several of these steeds have been imported into Europe, 
and some into England; but they did not turn out so well 
for breeding from, as was expected. This failure might 
possibly arise from not breeding them with the kind of ani¬ 
mal to which their qualities are likely to be the most useful. 
It is very probable, that they might improve our cavalry 
horses by crossing them with three-part bred mares. 
SECTION IV.—AMERICAN HORSES. 
Horses are found in vast numbers in a wild state in the 
immense plains of South America, extending from the 
shores of La Plata to Patagonia. They are an emancipated 
race, emanating from those which were carried thither by 
the Spaniards, after their discovery of the new continent; 
and have increased with such astonishing rapidity, that 
