THE HOESE. (Equus caballus.) 
The noblest conquest that man ever made over the 
brute creation was the taming of the Horse, and adapt- 
ing him to his service. He lessens the labours of man 
and adds to his pleasures : shares, with equal docility 
and cheerfulness, the fatigues of hunting or the dangers 
of war ; and draws with appropriate strength, rapidity, 
or grace, the heavy ploughs and carts of the husband- 
man, the light vehicles of the fashionable, and the 
stately carriages of the aristocratic. 
The Horse is now bred in most parts of the world : 
those of Arabia, Turkey, and Persia are accounted better 
proportioned than many others ; but the English Eace- 
Horse may justly claim the precedence over all the 
other European breeds, and is not inferior to any in 
strength and symmetry. 
The beautiful Horses produced in Arabia are in 
general of a brown colour ; their mane and tail are very 
short, with the hair black and tufted. The Arabs, for 
the most part, use the Mares in their ordinary excur- 
sions ; experience having taught them that they are less 
vicious than the males, and more capable of sustaining 
abstinence and fatigue. As the Arabs have no other 
