Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-29

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WE approach the modern horse every best
w breed those possess any speed
Arabian We have that Arabia conspicuous for
its the time Mohammed born A d. ST. The
Arab prominent the time the Arab
gon and than that religion Aaba temporal power
maintained his supremacy the world
origin Arabian horse is unknown By Arabia
the country the horse and the
descendant of the original stock 1t certain that
the Ned province several centuries before
Mohammed origin himself have shown
entirely unknown 1t usually ascribed Asia Africa but
very possible he existed first and domescaed in
have shown, the complete fossil remains
of the horse found which obvOn has rolled
covering perhaps both steed and rider.
whatever the origin the Arab horse his excellence
disputed He among horses the Caucasian among the
highest type of his
discussing the Arabian horse, let examine
physical and history the country from which he
large peninsula in Western
the the Mediterranean Sea- the the
Alden the Arabian Sea- and
Euphrates River the last of which
reaches very the Mediterranean
Gulf OF Akabah the Strait
Bah Mandeb about thirteen hundred miles Its greatest
BREADTH wenthre degrees north latitude from the Red Sea
Ras-eadd fifteen hundred miles and apex where joins
ASIA something under nine hundred miles In
surface it about million, hundred and thirty
thousand square miles
country about equal
One the coast that consists of barren and sandy plains along the
height; a similar stretch land the Arabian Sea- and
Persian Gulf except that this last something
fertile and the mountains behind higher rising about
thousand those Oman green partly covered with
palms. to be called the Green Mountains
In Southern Arabia between these ranges extends the
great Arabian Desert powerful rival the Sahara Desert Africa
There the province Ned which extends in Northern and
Middle Arabia between the mountain of the Red Sea
and the Persian Gulf This province consists of tabeand varying
in altitude thousand thousand above the
And these abound in fertile valleys and GASES of rich pasture and are
inhabited by the shepherd tribes known Bedoun whose wealth
entirely Aock cattle sheep goats
and horses This the country of the Arab horse No penup
Utica his The confines limit his vision
Even the of his subject removal 1t is
estimated that there the Bedouins about million
hundred thousand For they have occupied this extensive
and valuable province OF Ncd living about free life any
people
said that the Arabs the resemble the Africans
their and language while those OF the Nejd province al
though similar have strong Asiatc characteristics The
origin of both entirely unknown and their history but little
known until the time Mohammed and when suddenly the
glory of their challenged the attention and admiration of the
world burst with irresistible all contiguous parts
Asia and Africa and extended fecey into Europe both through
Turkey and Spain 1t finally checked in France by Charles
Mate the great battle OF Tours which extended five days
and which the Saracens under AbderRahman lost number
thousand
For thousand years the has held its Asia
Africa and Turkey in Europe but finally driven from Spain
The Arabian has also exceed in scholarship we'll the
and sciences especially chemistry astronomy metaurgy
medicine
THE ARAB HORSE.
In the made by the Arabs the Arab horse played
conspicuous part He part of the conquest and thu
introduced into Sera Russia Turkey Egypt Barba Spar
and France. In Andaua Spain he became especially noted
and from there transported the New World The Spanish
the Barb the Turkish Persian and the Arab horse all draw
the English thoroughbred from which thu