96 THK HORSE. 



in and in j n an( j m breeding : and when degeneracy 



breeding pro- J 



, was noticed, and the writers of 1750 



denounced the Eastern horse as a useless 

 progenitor of stock, the British stock had 

 been reirioculated with the same lymph, 

 and cousins refused to propagate offspring 

 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 good blood," the good 



good blood to 



the rescue. e ff ects f ro m which are to be noticed 

 throughout the breeds of all British 

 horses. 



Breeding within the same family was 



