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that the other might with ease have been trained to the same 

 pace, and to a good rate of going. 



Whether this was or was not a characteristic of the race, I 

 am unable to saj ; but I know that the animals seemed to me, 

 then, perfect heaitx ideals of Andalusian jennets, and were regard- 

 ed as sucli, bj persons more competent to pronounce than my- 

 self. 



Taken in consideration with reference to the tradition, as to 

 their origin, and comparing this with the like story in regard to 

 the ]Srarraganset pacers, I am of opinion that these two now 

 nearly extinct races, were nearly, if not altogether identical, 

 both in characteristics and descent ; and that it is equally 

 lamentable, that both breeds have passed away, owing to a want 

 of comprehension of their merits, and a failure of well-directed 

 efforts to preserve them. 



In relation to the Scottish Galloway, attempts have been 

 made, by breeding, to produce a creature analogous to it, and 

 possessing the same qualities ; it has, however, but partially 

 succeeded. !N^either its I'emarkable beauty, nor its singular en- 

 durance as a roadster, which was its most marked, as well as its 

 most important, characteristic, having been in any degree re- 

 produced by the experiments at artificial breeding. 



This, by the way, is in nothing remarkable, although the 

 converse proposition would have been very much so ; if, as is 

 insisted, the Scottish Galloway was, in itself, an animal of pure 

 original descent. Since it is well established, that, however 

 nearly, by the admixture of different races of animals, we may 

 in tlie end produce an external imitation of some particular fam- 

 ily or breed, we must never look to create physical or moral 

 qualities, much less to establish, by a succession of mixtures, a 

 blood which shall transmit itself unmixed and identical, from 

 generation to generation. 



This appears to be an immutable, as it is a most wise and 

 providential law of nature. 



Monsters and mongrels cannot reproduce their qualities, or 

 even their external form. "Were it not so, this fair earth would, 

 long ere this, have become a chaos — a mere laboratory of mon- 

 strosities ; and the excellent forms, graceful movements, and ar- 

 tistically attributed hues of the types of the animated world, 

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