EARLY DISTRIBUTION OF HORSES.
First evidences of horses in Egypt about 1700 B.C.—Supported
by Egyptian records and history—The Patriarch Job had no
horses—Solomon’s great cavalry force organized—Arabia as
described by Strabo at the beginning of our era—No horses
then in Arabia—Constantius sends two hundred Cappadocian
horses into Arabia A.D. 356—Arabia the last country to be
supplied with horses—The ancient Phœnician merchants and their
colonies—Hannibal’s cavalry forces in the Punic Wars—Distant
ramifications of Phœnician trade and colonization—Commerce
reached as far as Britain and the Baltic—Probable source of
Britain’s earliest horses 36-50