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Plate XIX. A Circaffian Prince or Nobleman in füll accoutrement, andprovided with arms, a white jacket over his coat of mail,the bow and quiver ; and being ready to mount his horfe :likewife a common Circaffian drefled in a cloak or mantleufually worn in rainy weather ; and furnifhed with a fabreand a club mounted with iron, which are their conftant wea-pons on their excurfions. In the back ground are repre-fented tombs of that nation, p. 400 and following.

Plate XX. A Circaffian Nobleman in his complete accoutrements andarms, on horfeback. In the back ground are Circaffiandwellings, pp. 401 and 397.

Plate XXI. A delineation of the principal races of Circaffian and Abaf-fian horfes:— a reprefents the whole hoof together with thecharacter which is burnt in the right hip of thofe animalsdefcended from the race of Shalock, being the nobleft of thehorfes bred in the great Kabarda; and the progenitor ofwhich, according to an old tradition of the Circaffians, hasoriginally rifen from the Ocean ; b, is the fign of the Cir-caffian race Tram; c, of Mifofl; d, of Aßangir; e, ofthe Abaffian race Dßantemir ; /, of Shabulat; g, of Mark-han ; h, of Marguß; t, of the Perfian race Tßepalau;k, of Bekgan ; /, of the Abaffian race Lof or Lou, burntin the right hip ; m, likewife of the Abaffian race Dudaruk,burnt in the left ; n, of Tabu ; 0, of Kurtat; p and q, ofa race with which I am unacquainted, but bearing the lat-ter fign on the fhoulder ; r, of Kuralai, on the hip ; s, ofKafanukh ; t, of Kudinet ; u, of Aßanßukh ; v, of Mat;w, of Anfur; x, of Afonbukh; y, of Sakhokh; z, ofKaranuk ; a 2, and b 2, of races, the names of which Icould not learn; c 2, of Babuk; d 2 is unknown ; e 2, of

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