THE AMEKICAN TKOTTING-HOKSE. 167 



THE AMEEICAW TEOTTING 

 HOESE-HIS OEIGIN. 



THEKE is no nation on the face of the earth so 

 thoroughly embued with a love of the genus JEquus as 

 we are ; and knowing this to be the case, I trust I 

 may be pardoned in advancing a theory which I be- 

 lieve not to be a fallacy, in reference to the origin of 

 the American trotting-horse, and from what source 

 they inherit that specialty, entitling them to be ac- 

 knowledged the fastest animals in the world in that 

 peculiar pace. But in case some readers are inclin- 

 ed to disallow this superiority, and dispute the point, 

 that American horses are faster trotters than ours, 

 permit me to state that across the Atlantic I have 

 seen many nags that could perform their mile in har- 

 ness in less than two minutes and a half, and three 

 that have trotted the same distance in less than two 

 minutes and twenty seconds; moreover they have 

 the most enduring qualities, as can be attested by 

 several having performed their twenty miles within 



