The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . and illustrativeof almost every phase of regal and military life,—the horse isuniformly represented as a remarkably high-crested, large-headed, heavy-shouldered animal: rather long-bodied ; power-fully limbed ; his neck clothed with volumes of shaggy mane,often plaited into regular and fanciful braids; and his tailcoarse and abundant, frequently ornamented similarly to hisown mane and to the beard and hair o
The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . and illustrativeof almost every phase of regal and military life,—the horse isuniformly represented as a remarkably high-crested, large-headed, heavy-shouldered animal: rather long-bodied ; power-fully limbed ; his neck clothed with volumes of shaggy mane,often plaited into regular and fanciful braids; and his tailcoarse and abundant, frequently ornamented similarly to hisown mane and to the beard and hair of his driver—an ani- HISTORY OF THE HORSE. ^ .•^?<5 mal, indeed, as unlike as possible to the low-statured, delicate-limbed, small-headed Arabs and barbs of modern days, withtheir basin-faces, large full eyes, and long, thin manes, fromwhich the blood-horse of our times has derived his peculiarexcellence. The same remarks may, in the main, be made asto the Greek and Roman horse, fromthe representations which have comedown to us. The English blood-horse,beingconfessedl^the most perfectanimal of higrace in the wholeworld, both forspeed and endur-ance, and theAmerican blood-. THE SHETLAND POirr.—AK ENGLISH SPOKTINQ 8CEWB. horse directly tracing without mixture to English, and throughthe English to Oriental parentage, some account of the formervariety may be of interest to the reader. It has already been remarked that large numbers of horseswere found in Britain at the first Koman invasion. It is to beadded, that Caesar ^thought them so valuable that he carried 22 HISTORT OF THE HORSE. ^ many of them to Rome : and the British horses were, for aconsiderable period afterward, in great demand in variousparts of the Roman Empire. After the evacuation of En-gland by the Romans and its conquest by the Saxons, consider-able attention was paid to the English breed of horses; andafter the reign of Alfred, running horses were imported fromGermany, this being the first intimation g
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