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AND LOWER EGYPT. 293
What I have just said of the Egyptian horses, is
confirmed by ancient and modern testimony. It
was in Egypt chiefly, according to the Jewish his-
torian, that Solomon purchased at a very high
price, the prodigious multitude of horses, which
were kept in his numerous stables*. One of my
countrymen, illustrious in his day, a prince of the
house of Beauveau, visiting Cairo on his travels,
in 1605, though familiar with the sight of fine
horses, could not refrain from admiring those of
the capital of Egypt f. Shaw, too, the English
traveller, describes them as superior to all others
in size and beauty j\ Lastly, to terminate my se-
ries of quotations, by one so transcendant, that it
will render them all superfluous, I shall repeat
what citizen Buonaparte wrote respecting the
* " And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horfes and
* chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen." 2 Chronicles, ix.
25.—" And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
*' chariots, and twelrc thousand horsemen." 1 King?, iv. 26.—
" And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt; and a cha-
" riot came up and went out of Egypt, for six hundred shekels
" of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty." 1 Kings,
x. 28, 29.
f Relation Journaliere d'un Voyage du Levant, fait et decrit
par Henri de Beauveau ; in 4to. Nana, 1619, p. 159.
% " But the Egyptian horses have deservedly the preferenceof
" all others for size and beautv ; the smallest of which are
" usually sixteen hands high, and all of them shaped, according
* to their phrase, hff d gaxel, like the antelope." Shaw's
Travels, p. 239.
u 3 Mameluc
What I have just said of the Egyptian horses, is
confirmed by ancient and modern testimony. It
was in Egypt chiefly, according to the Jewish his-
torian, that Solomon purchased at a very high
price, the prodigious multitude of horses, which
were kept in his numerous stables*. One of my
countrymen, illustrious in his day, a prince of the
house of Beauveau, visiting Cairo on his travels,
in 1605, though familiar with the sight of fine
horses, could not refrain from admiring those of
the capital of Egypt f. Shaw, too, the English
traveller, describes them as superior to all others
in size and beauty j\ Lastly, to terminate my se-
ries of quotations, by one so transcendant, that it
will render them all superfluous, I shall repeat
what citizen Buonaparte wrote respecting the
* " And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horfes and
* chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen." 2 Chronicles, ix.
25.—" And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
*' chariots, and twelrc thousand horsemen." 1 King?, iv. 26.—
" And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt; and a cha-
" riot came up and went out of Egypt, for six hundred shekels
" of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty." 1 Kings,
x. 28, 29.
f Relation Journaliere d'un Voyage du Levant, fait et decrit
par Henri de Beauveau ; in 4to. Nana, 1619, p. 159.
% " But the Egyptian horses have deservedly the preferenceof
" all others for size and beautv ; the smallest of which are
" usually sixteen hands high, and all of them shaped, according
* to their phrase, hff d gaxel, like the antelope." Shaw's
Travels, p. 239.
u 3 Mameluc