NARRAGANSET PACER. '75 



disposition it was gentle and compliant. It moved almost 

 to a wish, and never tired. I rode this little creature for 

 25 years, and twice in that time I rode 150 miles at a 

 stretch without stopping, except to bait, and that not for 

 above an hour at a time. It came in at the last stage with 

 as much ease and alacrity as it travelled the first. I could 

 have undertaken to have performed on this beast, when it 

 was in its prime, 60 miles a day for a twelvemonth run- 

 ning, without any extraordinary exertion." 



It is a matter of real regret that so excellent a breed of 

 creatures should have been allowed to become extinct in 

 both hemispheres, if it be not preserved by chance in the 

 degenerated race of Gal way. AYe say in both hemispheres 

 — for although it is not generally known, it is yet certain 

 that we once possessed in the far-famed Narraganset pacer 

 the actual Spanish pacing jennet of Andalusia, and the 

 exact counterpart of the Scottish Galloway. The color, 

 pace, docility, size, endurance, all the characteristics, 

 indeed, ^v•ould almost establish this fact without direct 

 evidence. But direct evidence is not wanting, as will be 

 discovered by reference to "Updyke's History of the Epis- 

 copal Church in ISTarraganset," where will be found a cu- 

 lious letter from a Mr. Hazard, who was intimately acquaint- 

 ed with the race while it was at its highest perfection and 

 held at its highest value ; and who distinctly states it to be 

 of Spanish origin, the ancestors having been brought from 

 Cuba, where the breed was in such demand for ladies' 

 saddle-horses that he attributes the extinction of the race 

 in Khode Island to the exportation of them in undue 

 numbers to the Havana. We suspect, however, that the 

 cause was rather the same which led to its extirpation in 

 England — the improvement of roads and the introduction 

 of wheeled carriages as the means of private conveyance, 

 which rendered a larger and stronger horse necessary, and 



