14 INTRODUCTION. 



J. n.Wallace, of tlie Iowa Agnciiltural Societj'-; to all of whom 

 I return sincere thanks. 



For the use of the engravings of the double team match, of 

 Flora Temple and of Pocahontas, I record my obligation to Mr. 

 N. Currier, of New York ; for the use of that of Ladj Suffolk, 

 to Mr. G. W. Lewis ; and for that of Young Black Hawk, to 

 his owner, Mr. Yernol, of New York. The likeness of Ethan 

 Allen is executed from an original, painted exiDressly for this 

 work, by Mr. Attwood, with the consent of his owner, Mr. Roe, 

 of Vermont. The woodcuts of the Vermont draught-horse and 

 the Conestoga, are from photographs of two noble animals, in 

 the possession of Messrs. Adams & Co.'s Express Company, 

 New York ; and that of St. Lawrence, from a photograph be- 

 longing to the proprietors of " Forter^s Spirit." To each and 

 all of which gentlemen I beg to renew my acknowledgments for 

 their courtesy and the accommodation they have afforded me ; 

 and now, before throwing myself on the candid and liberal 

 construction of my friends and the public, I have only to record 

 my sense of the valuable coo]3eration of my friend Mr. Philip 

 H. Anthon, in compiling the statistical tables, and of Messrs. 

 Capewell and Kimmell, the brilliant and artistical engravers — 

 to whom my publishers have wisely entrusted much of their 

 finest and most difficult work — in their execution of the plates, 

 which add so much to the intrinsic value and beauty of my 

 work. 



Trusting that my labors may not disappoint expectation, and 

 conscious that if they do so, it will be owing to the magnitude 

 and difficulty of the task, not to any want of industry or research 

 on my part, I commend myself to my readers, as ever 

 Their faithful and obliged, 



HJENKY Wm. Herbert. 

 The Oedabs, July 1, 1857. 



