peculiar and deer-like elegance of his form, the broad squareness of forehead, the short fine muzzle, the prominent and brilliant eye, the small ear, and the beautiful course of the veins, he appears to furnish all the requisites of a race horse.

The pure Arabians are smaller than our race horses, seldom exceeding fourteen hands two inches in height, and are never known, in tropical countries, to turn roarers or to have curbs.

Count Rzeiousky gives the following account of the docility and sagacity of the kohlan, or first class of Arabian breed of horses, translated by an English writer, and which we give, as being

very curious, although we think it highly exaggerated.

"Above all horses in the world," writes the Count, "the kohlan is distinguished for the goodness of his qualities and the beauty of his form. He possesses uncommon mildness of temper; an unalterable faithfulness to his master; a courage and intrepidity, as astonishing as they are innate in his noble breast; an unfailing remembrance of the places where he has been, and of the treatment he has received; not to be led, not to be touched, but by his master; in the most dreadful confusion of battle, cool and collected, he never forgets the place he came from, and though mortally wounded, if he can gather up sufficient strength, he carries back his desponding rider to his defeated tribe.

"His intelligence is wonderful he knows when he is sold, or even when his master is bargaining to sell him. When the proprietor and purchaser meet for that purpose in the stables, the kohlan soon guesses what is going on, becomes restless, gives from his beautiful eye a side glance at the interlocutors, scrapes the ground with his foot, and plainly shews his discontent. Neither the buyer nor any one else dares to come near him: but, the bargain being struck, when the vendor, taking the kohlan by

the halter, gives him up to the purchaser with a slice of bread and some salt, and turns away, never more to look at him as his own—an ancient custom of taking leave of a horse, and his recognizing a new master-it is then that this generous and noble animal becomes tractable, mild, and faithful to another, and proves himself immediately attached to him whom his passion, a few minutes before, might have laid at his feet, and trampled under his hoofs.

"This is not an idle story; I have been a witness of, and an actor in the interesting scene, having bought three kohlans in 1810 and 1811, from Turkish prisoners. I made the bargain in the stables, and received personally, and led off the most fierce but intelligent animals, which before the above mentioned ceremony, I should not have dared to approach. The fact has been confirmed to me by all the Turkish and Arab prisoners, and by several rich American merchants who deal in horses, and go generally to the desert to buy them. The kohlans also evince great warlike qualities."

Bishop Heber thus describes the docility of the Arabian horse. He says: My morning rides are very pleasant. My horse is a nice, quiet, good-tempered little Arab, who is so fearless, that he goes, without starting, close to

an elephant, and so gentle and docile, that he eats bread out of my hand, and has almost as much attachment and as many coaxing ways as a dog. This seems the general character of the Arabian horses, to judge from what I have seen in this country. It is not the fiery dashing animal I had supposed, but with more rationality about him, and more apparent confidence in his rider, than the majority of English horses."

Chillaby, the property of Mr. Jennings, of Clay Hall, Essex, formed a singular exception to the gentle and naturally tractable disposition of the Arabian horse; being so ferocious that he was kept chained in his stall, like a wild beast. He was, however, afterwards purchased and tamed by Hughes, for the circus, at the opening of that place of amusement in London.

In the belief that any information, and even anecdotes, relative to the Arabian parent stock from which our celebrated racing breed derive their origin, will not be out of place in a work professing to record the most renowned performances of the latter, we will proceed to give a few of the most interesting and best authenticated facts stated in the works treating on this subject.

Major Denham, the intelligent African traveller, thus expresses himself on the death of his favorite Arabian horse, in the deserts of central Africa :

"There are a few situations in a man's life, in which losses of this nature are felt most keenly; and this was one of them. It was not grief, but it was something nearly approaching to it; and though I felt ashamed at the degree of derangement I suffered from it, yet I was several days before I could get over the loss. Let it, however, be remembered, that the poor animal had been my support and comfort, nay, I may say, companion, through many a dreary day and night, had endured both hunger and thirst in my service; and was so docile, that he would stand still for hours in the desert, while I slept between his legs, his body affording me the only shelter that could be obtained from the powerful influence of a noonday sun; he was yet the fleetest of the fleet, and ever foremost in the chase."

Nothing can exceed the attachment that exists between the poor Arab and his horse, often his whole stock of wealth, The mare and her foal inhabit the same tent with his family, and are caressed by all. The body of a mare is often the pillow of her master, and more frequently of