10 BREEDING. 



constitute a medium exactly between both, when 

 every judicious observer will be enabled to 

 corroborate the opinion, that the event fre- 

 quently proves the error^ and demonstrates 

 a palpable degeneracy from even the xvorst of 

 the two. 



These are the kinds of connection I have 

 before termed heterogeneous, upon experi- 

 mental conviction, in such propagation ; the 

 natural sluggishness and inactivity of the old 

 English draft horses, whether it be in sire or 

 dam^ generally predominates in the offspring, 

 constituting an object of disappointment 

 where so much improvement was expected 

 by the cross. I believe (without adverting 

 to memory) that in a number of years past^ 

 I may boldly venture to afiirm, I could 

 number at least twenty within the exten- 

 sive circle of my own acquaintance, who, 

 full of expectation, and certain of success, 

 (in opposition to every persuasion) positive- 

 ly believed they should produce strong 

 boney hunters of figure, fashion, speed, and 

 strength in this way, when Time, the ex- 

 positor of all doubts, has at length reduced 

 the conjecture to a certainty ; and after wait-. 



