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whether it lias yet subsided. In the north Pick was the author- 

 ity and in the south, Weather by. 



These two men worked on different plans, and each had its ad- 

 vantages. Pick limited his labors to the great animals of the 

 past, and took them up in chronological order, giving a brief 

 sketch of the history and performances of each. This plan re- 

 quired space, and when he had completed his first volume of five 

 hundred and twenty-eight pages he had only reached the close of 

 1763. The second volume, bringing the work down to the close 

 of 1772, made its appearance in 1805. Mr. Pick did not live to 

 continue the work, and it fell into the hands of Mr. R. Johnson, 

 who brought out the third volume in 1822, which continued the 

 chronological order to the close of 1782. After the lapse of forty- 

 five years, namely 1867, the fourth volume appeared under Mr. 

 Johnson's name, bringing the work to the close of 1792, and I am 

 not aware that the work has been continued. These four volumes 

 contained much that cannot be found elsewhere, and are very 

 valuable. 



When we come to study these assemblages of impossible things 

 put together and called pedigrees, we begin to realize the abso- 

 lute rottenness of the alleged pedigrees of that whole early period. 

 Take, for instance, the case of the horse called the Bald Galloway. 

 He bore this name because he had a bald face, and was of the 

 Galloway breed. This Galloway breed took its name from the 

 old Province of Galloway, in the southwestern part of Scotland. 

 They were small, active horses and were famous for many genera- 

 tions as a breed of pacers. It has been said that the last pacers in 

 Great Britain were found in Galloway. This horse, Bald Gallo- 

 way, was foaled some time about 1708 and was famous as a fast 

 race horse till he trained off at five years old. I think there is 

 no doubt about his being a genuine Galloway, and if so how 

 could he have a pedigree all of foreign blood and ending in a 

 " Royal Mare?" This Galloway horse was the sire of the famous 

 Roxana, that produced Lath and his full brother Cade, that 

 made the early reputation of the great Godolphin Arabian. I 

 will ask my readers to refer to the Ourwen Bay Barb, No. 11, 

 near the commencement of this chapter. This was one of the 

 very best of all the Barbs imported, and his origin and history are 

 given with unusual fullness, as well as an enumeration of the best 

 of his get. In examining this enumeration it will be seen that a 

 good number of his best foals were out of Galloway mares and 



