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them forty miles a day for many days in succession without experiencing 

 excessive fatigue. Tliat they were horses of great ])ottom, and some- 

 times of extraordinary speed, is undoubtedly true. The Colonial divine, 

 Dr. McSparren, in his "America Dissected," speaking of the horses of 

 Virginia, says: "There were plenty of a small sort of horses — the l)est 

 in the world, like the little Scotch Galloways ; and 'tis no extraordinary 

 journey to ride from sixty to seventy miles in a day. I have often, but 

 on larger pacing liorses, rode fifty, nay, sixty, miles a day, even here in 



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New England, where the roads are rough, stony and uneven." Again, 

 speaking of the Narragansett pacer particularly, as an animal for export, 

 he says : " They are remarkable for swift pacing , and I have seen some 

 of them pace a mile in a little moie than two minutes, and a good deal 

 less than three." The good doctor probably did not hold a timing-watch 

 on them The stoiy, however, is fully as credible as that oth sr story of 

 Flying Childers having ruu a mile in a minute. 



