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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
father Noah could have got two of each kind into his big ship ! 
And since those animals would give rise in their distribution, 
to the greatest number of species, whose possible range was 
the widest, we should reasonably expect several varieties of 
the horse. Allow me, therefore, in the next place, to call your 
attention to the interesting subject of the 
DIFFERENT RACES. 
Some natural historians reckon twenty different varieties or 
“ breeds ” of horses, but this number might with propriety be 
considerable increased. 
First of the breeds of the old continent, then of the new. 
There is but little reason to belieVe that the Arabian horse was 
originally superior to others ; but the Arab himself, was so 
well adapted by nature to the work of breeding and rearing the 
stock which came to him from Capadocia, and the circumstance 
of Mahomet’s flight, was so calculated to blend in the minds of 
that wild and simple people the business with their religion, 
that they have produced in the course of centuries, the finest 
horse of which the woild can boast. 
There are three breeds—distinguished as the Altechi, the 
Kadischi, and the Kochlani ; of which the first is an inferior 
race ; the second inferior and mixed ; the Kochlani alone 
being of the pure and regal blood, descended in direct lineage, 
as they contend, from the stud of Solomon. Many of these 
last are so perfect in their genealogy that their pedigree is 
traceable with a probability of correctness, through a period 
of five centuries. 
The characteristics of the Arabian will strike every horse¬ 
man as being indicative of “ blood.” The broad forehead, 
the prominent and billiant eye, small, thin ear, the prominence 
and definiteness of the blood vessels, the high withers and 
backwardly inclining shoulder-blade, the powerfully muscled 
fore-arm and thigh, and thin, flat, wiry leg, are prominent at a 
glance. But in addition to all these points , there is always 
discoverable a certain loftiness of spirit, fiery eyes, and heroic 
