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mark, so common was it in his immorliate family. They also followed 

 him -with great uniformity in the long ear, the large and prominent 

 and very expressively intelligent eye; in the flatness of the sides, the 

 narrowness at the hips and the cat-haras; the clean and large throttle 

 and windpipe, and often in a most hideous Roman nose, broad on the 

 side, but thin in the front profile. Now and then, however, there was 

 as fine a face as was ever carried by a horse. 



These peculiarities of form Abdallah did not derive from his sire, 

 although Mambrino was no real beauty, but had plenty of that 

 coarseness or roughness that indicated the great strength and solidity 

 of material which belonged to the Messenger family. 



The essential peculiarities of form in Abdallah came from Amazo- 

 nia — for the foregoing portraiture was her own in strong degree. She 

 was a Messenger in strong and positive outline, both in form and 

 quality, with the eccentricities or distinctive features above delineated 

 in addition. 



Her general make-up, in its bold and coarse outline and intense 

 positiveness, would not in that day be sought for with success outside 

 of the Messenger family. Happily, we are not left to grope in the 

 dark as to locality or channels which clearly indicate her origin. 



The account we have of Amazonia was, that she was found bv Mr. 

 B. T. Kissam, a wholesale merchant of New York, in a team, near 

 Philadelphia, where Mr. Kissam was on an excursion of pleasure. We 

 are not told whether it was in New Jersey or Pennsylvania. Mr. 

 Kissam drove her for a short time, and sold her to his vincle, Mr. John 

 Tredwell, on Long Island, and he bred her to Mambrino and raised 

 Abdallah. She was four years old when bought by Mr. Kissam. She 

 was a chestnut mare, fifteen hands three inches high; a coarse, flat- 

 sided mare, with a big, rough head, and a long, homely ear and ragged 

 hips. 



She is described by those who knew her in the above terms, with 

 the further statement that she was very wide between the eyes; her 

 head very long; that she had a rat tail, and powerful, flat legs, but 

 covered with coarse hair at the fetlock. All accounts agree in saying 

 she was a trotter of the highest type — a road mare of great distinc- 

 tion, many say without an equal. 



No question seems to have been raised in any of the journals, or 

 among horsemen, concerning her origin, until about the year 1870 — 

 over fifty years after the probable time when she »ppeai-ed in New 

 York. 



