96 THK HORSE. 



In and in {^i and in breedins; ; and when deo-eneracy 



breeding pro- ^ cd j 



degei^racyin ^^s noticed, and the writers of 1750 

 denounced the Eastern horse as a useless 

 progenitor of stock, the British stock had 

 been reinoculated with the same lymph, 

 and cousins refused to propagate oiFspring 

 so good as themselves. The law against 

 which nature ever sets her face had been 

 violated. The only means whereby to 

 mend matters existed in a recourse to 

 the same system which operated so suc- 

 cessfully from the first importations ; and 

 luckily, by accident, the Darley and 

 Godolphin Arabians arrived, and gave a 



A cross of ^* fresh cross of o^ood blood," the o;ood 



good blood to & 7 o 



the rescue. effccts from which are to be noticed 

 throughout the breeds of all British 

 horses. 



Breeding within the same family was 



