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power, than the ordinary run of Morgan stallions — and if I de- 

 sired to breed cart-horses, I should prefer to fall back on the 

 Cleveland Bay, the Norman, or the Punch. 



But, the universe over, for general work, there is not, and 

 never will be any thing comparable to a high cross of the very 

 best thorough blood on the sire's side, with the very best general 

 stock on the dam's. 



And this very best general stock, for such breeding purposes, 

 so far as the United States are concerned, I am willing to con 

 cede, is to be found on the frontiers of Vermont, of the most 

 approved quality. 



In corroboration of my own opinion, on this subject, I take 

 the liberty to subjoin a few lines from that excellent horseman 

 and breeder, the late President of the Union Jockey Club, 

 Mr. J. Prescott Hall, to whom, on commencing this under- 

 taking, I applied for information on this and other subjects, 

 and to whom I am glad to record my indebtedness for invalu- 

 able assistance. 



"The Morgan horse" — he writes me — "is not, in my judg- 

 ment, a new creation. I knew them well more than forty years 

 ago ; and my father had at one time no less than four stallions 

 of this breed. 



"They are crosses from thoroughbreds, and one of the four to 

 which I have referred had imported King William for his sire. All 

 of them had fine trotting action, and great speed in quarter races." 



ISTow King AVilliam was got by Herod out of Madea]) by 

 Snap, g. d. Miss Meredith, etc. He was imported by Mr. Skinner, 

 of Hartford, Conn., and is stated, by Mr. C. H. Hall, in a MS. 

 note to the Stud Book, to have got good stock, and left visible 

 traces of his blood in Conn., even down to the year 1828, 

 although he had not the advantage of having blood mares. 



This is, directly, a case in point ; as here was a King Wil- 

 liam stallion, of known breed, passing as a Morgan horse, when 

 he had just as much right to be called an Arab, or a jackass ; 

 and, of course, his progeny have borne the same title, and thus 

 Morgan has obtained a credit to which he is, in no sort, entitled. 



Doubtless, if clues could be had and traced out, we should 

 detect the same process at work every where in the history of 

 this stock. 



