 ... of giving them more breath, and also to hinder their neighing in battle. The Flemish Horses are greatly inferior to those of Holland: they have almost all large heads, flat feet, and are subject to humours in the eyes; and these two last are essential...  Truths and Fables - Page 181847 - 61 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Hornby Morland - 1810 - 192 pages
...and Arabian deserts : he adds, that they outrun the dogs and domestic horses. According to Marmol, the Arabian horses are descended from the wild horses in the deserts of Arabia, of which studs were formed very anciently, and which multiplied so greatly, as to spread over all Asia... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pages
...humours in the eyes; and these two last are essential defects in coach Horses. According to Marmol, the Arabian Horses are descended from the wild Horses in the deserts of Arabia, of which, in ancient times, large studs were formed, which have multiplied so much, that all Asia and... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...humours in the eyes ; and these two last are essential defects in coach Horses. " According to Marmol, r this wild wood, And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a k of which, ir. ancient times, large studs were formed, which have multiplied so much, tnat all Asia... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...humours in the eyes ; and these two last are essential defects in coach Horses. " According to Marmol, the Arabian Horses are descended from the wild Horses in the deserts of Arabia, of which, in ancient times, large studs were formed, •which hare multiplied so much, that all Asia... | |
 | John Hankins Wallace - Horse breeding - 1897 - 678 pages
...not to commit himself nor indorse it in any form. In Vol. I., p. 237, he says: "According to Manuol, the Arabian horses are descended from the wild horses in the deserts of Arabia, of which, in ancient times, large studs were formed," etc. In going further, to find where Mannol got... | |
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