ORIGINAL HABITAT OF THE HORSE.
No indications that the horse was originally wild—The steppes
of High Asia and Arabia not tenable as his original home—Color
not sufficient evidence —Impossibility of horses existing in
Arabia in a wild state—No horses in Arabia until 356 A.D.—Large
forces of Armenian, Median and Cappadocian cavalry employed
more than one thousand seven hundred years B.C.—A breed of
white race horses—Special adaptability of the Armenian country
to the horse—Armenia a horse-exporting country before the
Prophet Ezekiel—Devotion of the Armenian people to agricultural
and pastoral pursuits through a period of four thousand
years—All the evidences point to ancient Armenia as the center
from which the horse was distributed 24-35