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 THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 523

Kuara among the Shangalla and Cuba, in Narca and CafFa, and in the mountains of Dyre and Tegla, and to the fouth- ward near as far as the Cape.

What figure the Nubian breed would make in point of fleetnefs is very doubtful, their make being fo entirely different from that of the Arabian ; but if beautiful and fymmetrical parts, great fize and ftrengch, the moll agile, nervous, and elallic movements, great endurance of fa- tigue, docility of temper, and feeming attachment to man, beyond any other domeflic animal, can promiie any thing for a flallion, the Nubian is, above all comparifon, the moft eligible in the v/orld. Few men have feen more hor- fes, or more of the different places where they are excellent, than I have, and no one ever more delighted in them, as far as th€ manly exercife went. What thefe may produce for the turf is v/liat I cannot fo much as gucfs, as there i^ not, I believe, in the world one more indifferent to, or ig- norant of, that amufement than I am. The experiment would be worth trying in any view. The expcnce would not be great, yet there might be fome trouble and applica- tion neceffary, but, if adroitly managed, not much even of that.

I COULD not refrain from attempting a dravving of one of them, which I fince, and but very lately, unfortimately miilaid. It was a horfe of Shekh Adelan, which with fome difficulty I had liberty to draw. It was not quite four years ' old, was full 16 hands high : I mean this only as an idea ; I know the faults of my drawing, and could correft many of them 'y -but it is a rule I have invariably adhered to in this, as well as in defcription, to correct nothing from recol-

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