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horse, showing the evidence of a strain of good blood, not in 

 general very recent, or very considerable. 



They rarely, if ever, exceed fifteen hands two inches, and it 

 is probable that a hand lower, or from that up to fifteen, is 

 nearer to their standard. They are not, I think, particularly 

 closely ribbed up, and many of them are inclined to be sway- 

 backed. Their hind quarters are generally powerful, and their 

 legs and feet good. There is an evident family resemblance in 

 their forehands, their necks and crests being so often, as to 

 render the mark somewhat characteristic, lofty but erect, with- 

 out much curvature, and the neck apt to be thick at the setting 

 on of the head, which, though good, is rarely blood-like. 



The manes and tails of these horses are almost invariably 

 coarse, as well as heavy and abundant, and have very often— 

 as cannot fail to be remarked by any one, who will closely 

 examine the wood-cuts in Mr. Linsley's work, which, although 

 very coarse in execution, are believed to be fair likenesses, as 

 being taken generally from daguerreotypes — a strong wave, or 

 even curl of the hair. 



All these points are those of the Canadian or JSTorman horse, 

 the latter so decidedly so, that I believe no such thing ever 

 occurs, where there is not a strain of that blood. 



I should say, that any judge of liorseflesh, on seeing the por- 

 traits to which I allude, if not informed what race of animals 

 they are intended to represent, would at once pronounce many 

 of them Canadians. 



I will specify more particularly Green Mountain 2d, Mor- 

 gan General, Fljnng Morgan, Golden Eagle and ]^orth Star, the 

 last-mentioned as woolly as a Yii-giuia negro. 



It is farther worthy of special remark, that every one of the 

 horses represented in this volume, which have the least of this 

 appearance, or none of it at all, as Paul Cliftbrd, Black Hawk 

 and Black Jack, all of which have clean legs, arclied crests, 

 well-set-on heads and straight hair, have large mixtures of pure 

 blood, other than whatever did, or did not come, from the Justin 

 Morgan. 



Thus the dam of Paul Clifi"ord was by young Ilamiltonian, 

 he by Bishop's Hamiltonian, thoroughbred, by imported Mes- 

 senger, imported Leonidas, and Bellfounder. The dam of 



