The horse / by William Youatt ; with a treatise on draught by I.K. Brunel ; and an appendix intended to advance the work to the present state of veterinary science by W.C. Spooner.

  • Youatt, William, 1776-1847.
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[1831]
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Credit: The horse / by William Youatt ; with a treatise on draught by I.K. Brunel ; and an appendix intended to advance the work to the present state of veterinary science by W.C. Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TIIK IIORSK CnAl>riiH 1. OENKRaL IIISTOKY of the IIOIISK. Hackney. AraBian. Ht.ntrr. Into this and the various breeds of horses, we shall enter at some len^^th , and although the more practical division of the Treatise will be thereby necessarily postponed until the next monthly part, we shall not, even at present, forget the name of the Library to which it belongs, but endeavour to blend the useful with the entertaining. The native country of the horse cannot with certainty be traced. He has been found, varying materially in size, in form, and in utility, in all the temperate, in most of the sultry, and in many of the northern ren-ions of the Old World. In the Sacred Volume, which, beside its higher claims to stand at the head of the Farmer's Library, contains the oldest authentic record of past transactions, we are told that, so early as 1650 years before the birth of Christ, the horse had been domesticated by the Egyptians. When Joseph carried his father's remains from Egypt to Canaan, there went up with him both chariots and horsemen*. One hundred and fifty years after- wards, the horse constituted the principal strength of the Egyptian army. Pharaoh pursued the Israelites with six hundred chosen chariots, and with all the chariots of Egypt f. If we could be lieve the accounts of the uninspired historians, Sesostris (tl)e monarch prob ibly whom Joseph served) had twenty-seven thousand chariots of war; and Semiramis, the founder of Babylon, had one hundred thousand chariots, and a million of horsemen; but this was probably a great exaggeration. Fitly years after the expulsion of the Israelites from Et^ypt, and 1450 years before the birth o( Christ, the horse was so far natunvlized in Crreece