Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-11-27
THE HORSE
BY JOSEPH BATTELL
From Advance Sheets.
[ Continued Lrom last geek.
EARLY HISTORY CONTINUED

provcr Its inhabitants are reported to have
taught Greece the method coupling horses chariot They
were considered sml horscmen superior other nations,
and never fought but on horseback.
1T may perhaps be time quit these regions in order to
follow subject and what reception found and what
progress third remaining part of
the globe, called Europe
1T imagined and the conjecture by groundess
that the colonies which from Phenca and Egypt countries in
which equaon hourhed brought the with them and estab
ishcd n Greece, long before the siege of Troy.
LAS have already been urged and author
tics produced from the sacred writings order prove that riding
horseback least coeva prior the charots
be improper likewise have to the oldest
authors order what farther knowledge may be CLEANED from
them.
Homer oldest poet the oldest pa
gan historian, speaks Of riding Familiarity parts of his
poems that believe known and in among the
Greeks before he composed his Had and Odyssey.
1.-Two passages of this poet in the 18th book of the Had
the other in the 5h OF the Odyssey will prove this assertion
in the first read to the following effect Just skiu
hoscman riding chosen horses along public road
great city, where his is terminate
Ihc whole assemblies behold him and gaze upon him
with wonder and applause while he leaps pleasure from the back
OF horse, to another, and flies along with them
The testimony the Odyssey is likewise
another smc which the poet Ulysses shpwrcckcd
sitting asdc plank which floating upon the
bcstridng horse and keeping his spite of all the motions
the animal could make TO the foregoing arguments may still
add another the He tells us
Ulysses and DOmcd by night the Rh1sus; Ulysses
seeing his horses tied behind his chariot Immediately released them
from and mounting them with Domed they rode to the Gccan
camp
Notwithstanding the evidences (which to
prove clearly that riding Trojan vet
be silence the
Greeks during that long siege made OF chariots only for
not known that they had bodies troops which served horse
back
1T has been already observed that conjccurcd
colonies which from hUnca and Egypt supposed to have
brought with them the riding Greece likewise
probable that the Geeans only indebted them their
knowledge cquaon but likewise the animal which
jcc OF it, being suspected that the horse originally
tive OF Greece but transpancd thhc parts
tells that the Greeks learned couple horses
from the Africans bians) and Pny, the naturalist says
Greeks composed trcatscs history
their country did not originally produce any and they knew nothing
OF them in their wild
"In following subject led, place to
slider the fictitious story the who reported
been the inventors and teachers OF Gccan horscmanshp Many
different be found concerning them the poets and
other NEUROLOGICAL simple seems to be
this
1T said by many writer's that Thcssaans chiefly
those who dwel about Mount Peon, the among
Greeks who applied themselves the breaking horses Pny
the Elder Beerophon the honor having
mounted horse but his story to be entitled
any credit Notwithstanding this the same writer Declares that
the hessaans OF all the Greeks applied themselves this
The ancient cavalry OF Greece therefore,
in Ihessaly History farther primitive horse
in order acquire knowledge dexter art as well
display them upon proper occasions fight
with bulls attacking them with avens order kill
thereby prevent them from ravagng their fields
bul-untng is supposed they expert well as in
manshp by the assistance which they enabled to attack and
destroy these wild and dangerous animals Pny says Julius
Cesar introduced these buEfghtng into Rome
first who entertained the people with these spccaccs;
probable that the celebrated Spanish bueas called
are derived from these sports the Romans their
from the Greeks BE this it certain that
ur or to speak properly ppoccnaur its dcrvaonn
the Greek language this bu-woundng by men, who
attacked them horseback the word ppocenaur gnng an
Horscman Bullwoundcr.
"Ihe Centu IS the symbol OF Workmanship, explains its