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New York, bought him near Montreal, about 1826 or 1827, and 

 the stallion became better known through his own son, the Morse 

 horse, sire of Alexander's Norman. The McNitt horse was 

 known as an imported horse, and in every particular of color, 

 size, form, action, and character, he may be considered a true 

 representative of the race, as bred at that date. 



The French Blood in Canada and New Jersey. 

 In 1839 Mr. Edward Harris, of Moorestown, New Jersey, pur- 

 chased two stallions and two mares of French blood, but landed 

 only one, that a mare, safely on his farm at Moorestown, New 

 Jersey. In three weeks time he returned to France, and was 

 more fortunate, bringing back the stallion Diligence, and two 

 mares. In writing to a friend about these horses, he says: 

 "Those who are acquainted with the thorough-bred Canadian 

 horse will see in him a perfect model, on a small scale, of the 

 Perdieron horse." This is a peculiar breed of Normandy, and, 

 from the best French authorities, he claims they were produced 

 by the cross of the Andalusian horse on the heavy Norman horse. 

 This horse Diligence was heavy, compactly built, and a little 

 over fifteen hands high. He is said to have made a valuable 

 impress on the stock of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. 



French Horse in Ohio. In 1851 Messrs. Charles Full- 

 ington and Erastus Martin, of Union County, Ohio, went to 

 France, in quest of fine cattle and sheep, for the Darby Plains 

 Importing Co. Mr. Fullington, like Mr. Harris, became im- 

 pressed with the superiority of the French horses, when 

 riding behind them over hills and valleys in the heavy dili- 

 gences of that country. It is told that Mr. Fullington was led 

 to select and buy the big, gray, three-year colt through the 

 persuasive powers of his landlady, Madame Bailleau. The colt 

 proved the lady to be a good judge of a horse ; for that short- 

 legged, blocky, close-ribbed colt was none other than the famous 

 Louis Napoleon. 



" The French horse," as he was called by Mr. Fullington's 

 neighbors, was not appreciated until his foals began to develop. 

 In the autumn of 1854 Mr. A. P. Cushman, of DeWitt County, 

 Illinois, purchased him for $1,500. and he kept him until 1858, 



