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Sporting anecdotes, original and selected; 1825 (1825)

Pierce Egan (1772-1849), George Cruikshank, and Robert Cruikshank · leaf 375

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352 … Wixp horses are taken notice of by several of the ancients. Herodotus mentions white wild horses on the banks of the Hypanis, in Scythia. He likewise tells us, that in the northern part of Thrace, beyond the Danube, there were wild horses covered all over with hair, five inches in length. The wild…

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