THE MORGAN HORSE. 



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nience, it is a matter for real regret that the family has entirely 

 disappeared, presumably without any prospect or hope of its 

 resuscitation. 



THE MORGAN HOKSE. 



Within a few years past the sporting world have become 

 familiar with a class or type of horses coming from the State 

 of Vermont, known as the Morgan horse ; in behalf of which a 

 claim has been made, that it is a distinct family, directly de- 

 scended from a single horse, owned a little 



■THAN ALLEN — A FAST TROTTING MORGAN HORSE. 



before and a little after the commencement of the present cen- 

 tury, loy Justin Morgan, of Randolph, in Vermont, from whom 

 the name takes its rise. 



Without choosing to go into an examination of the validity 

 of this claim — relative to which question an amount of bicker- 

 ing, crimination and recri mi nation has sprung up, sufficient to 



