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exported from Rhode Island. The only evidence, 

 however, that I can find, tending to show that Mr. 

 Hull's project was carried out is the following in- 

 dignant and righteous letter written by him some 

 years later to one William Heffernan : " I am in- 

 formed that you are so shameless that you offered 

 to sell some of my horses. I would have you know 

 that they are by God's good providence mine. Do 

 you bring me in some good security for my money 

 that is justly owing, and I shall be willing to give 

 you some horses, that you shall not need to offer to 

 steal any." 



At all events, the Narragansett pacers had a wide 

 reputation, and were sold in great numbers. In an 

 account of the American Colonies, published at Dub- 

 lin in 1753, and written by a clergyman of the English 

 Church, we find the following : " The produce of 

 this Colony [Rhode Island] is principally butter and 

 cheese, fat cattle, wool, and fine horses, that are ex- 

 ported to all parts of the English Americas. They 

 are remarkable for fleetness and swift pacing; and 

 I have seen some of them pace a mile in little more 

 than two minutes, a good deal less than three." 

 This last statement is doubtless exaggerated, but not 

 more so than is to be expected even from a clergyman 

 writing about horses. 



Since the Narragansett pacers became extinct, we 

 have had no family of horses in oSTew England bred 

 especially for riding, although the Morgans, of whom 

 I have spoken so often in the course of this book, are 

 excellent for that purpose. The trot of the best and 

 lightest Morgan families is peculiarly fit for the 

 saddle, being short, smooth, and, above all, extremely 

 elastic. 



