ORIENTAL BLOOD OF HORSES, &c. 
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does this tally with the production of ONE number of the 
Transactions^’ in the course of seven and twenty years ? or how 
does it accord with—They who suppose him (the Professor) 
competent to furnish new matter well digested and worthy of 
public attention, once in the year, over-rate his abilities V’- How 
true it is, we will take an early opportunity of presenting our 
readers with a faithful picture to show, in order that they may 
look and gaze with astonishment at the eminently‘'flourishing 
state of the Veterinary Profession! ! ! 
lEitractsf from iforeign 3>ournal0. 
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE 
ORIENTAL BLOOD OF HORSES INTO EUROPE. 
HIS Majesty” the King of Wurtemberg has honoured the Di¬ 
rector of the Royal Veterinary School at Alfort with the pre¬ 
sent of a collection of lithographs, of great value from the 
beauty and correctness of their execution, of six horses and 
mares of the oriental race, reared in his Majesty’s studs. A 
very summary description of the animals accompanies the 
plates, which is preceded by the observations we are about to 
transcribe, from the pen of the Count Brewauski. 
The first European countries into which the oriental blood 
was introduced are Greece and Spain, whence it might htive 
spread to the south and west of our part of the world. 
It was brought into Greece, in part by the wars that country 
sustained against the Persians, and in part through its different 
points of contact with the Eastern nations. The army of 
Xerxes, according to Herodotus, reckoned forty thousand 
horses, without doubt all entire, since even in our days castra¬ 
tion is not customary in the east, nor yet in Barbary, nor a part 
of Spain: the dry pasturage and warm climate of Greece fa¬ 
vouring the effects of so advantageous a cross. 
From Mauritania (Morocco) and Numidia (Algiers) the ori¬ 
ental blood entered Spain; also Sicily, which for several ages 
