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strain of his blood.” I append a sketch of one of these horses, showing 
the shape and action peculiar to them. It is said by good judges to be 
an excellent likeness. 
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CANADIAN HORSE, 
THE MORGAN HORSE. 
Tae Morean Horse has recently been paraded in America as a distinct 
strain, kept pure in its own district for more than half a century, and 
descended from a single horse, in the possession of Mr. Justin Morgan, a 
schoolmaster in Vermont. .In the present day the “ Morgans” are so 
much sought after that in the year 1856 the Agricultural Society of 
Vermont offered a prize for the best essay on the subject, which was 
awarded to Mr. Lindsey, an inhabitant of the same state. According to 
this authority, the founder of the family, or strain, was got by a horse 
called “True Briton,” which was said to have been stolen, and whose 
pedigree is therefore doubtful. Mr. Lindsey endeavours to prove, how- 
ever, that he was a son of the English thoroughbred horse Traveller, 
which he assumes to be identical with the son of Partner, known as 
Moreton’s Old Traveller, giving as his authority a pedigree imserted in 
the Albany “Cultivator” of 1846. The same authority is also adduced 
to prove that the dam of True Briton and also of Justin Morgan’s horse 
were of nearly pure English blood, and that the latter was descended 
from the famous “Cub” mare; but the facts adduced seem of the most 
doubtful nature, and I believe that the Morgan horse would.in this 
country be considered as undoubtedly half-bred. 
Mr. Lindsey describes the founder of the Morgan strain in the following 
terms :—He “was about fourteen hands high, and weighed about nine 
