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also seen in our own time, Bourgelat and Chabert 

 send stallions from Normandy into England, of an 

 excellent quality, which were disregarded by us, and 

 undervalued, but which the English, who were better 

 jadges than ourselves, knew well how to appreciate. 

 We are at this day behind hand upon this point with 

 almost all the rest of Europe. Above all, the English 

 have not only far surpassed us, but they have had the 

 address to profit by our negligence and our indolence, 

 to which may also be added, our ignorance, in turning 

 to their own use horses which we despised, or of the 

 properties of which we were incapable of forming a 

 just estimate. The stallion known by the name 

 of the Godolphin Arabian, was bought at Paris for 

 eighteen louis-d'or, as a horse of little value, and from 

 which we had obtained no stock. He produced after- 

 wards in England, Babraham, Mask, Regulus, and se- 

 veral other excellent race-horses ; for the descendants 

 of which we have since paid enormous prices. It is 

 therefore to be hoped, that as we become more en- 

 lightened, and more sensible of our true interests, and 

 favoured by the beauty of our atmosphere, and the 

 salubrity of our climate and our pasturages, we shall 

 hasten to regain what we have lost by our apathy, and 

 employ in the improvement of the breed of our horses, 

 those excessive sums which we are obliged to export 

 in the purchase of those of which we are in want. 



" The En2:lish horses are the most celebrated in 

 Europe, but their establishments for breeding being 

 not so complete as ours, and their climate in no part 

 of it to be compared to the south of France, we 

 evidently have many advantages which they do not 

 possess. 



" The crossing of the Arabian and other Asiatic 

 horses with the English breed, and the farther cross- 



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