60 THE MORGAN HORSE. 



cuirassiers, came dismounted, and were all horsed from Vermont, with 

 scarcely an exception, the Canadian horses not having either the size 

 or power necessary to carry such weight. 



" I saw this magnificent regiment several times under arms after 

 the horses had been broken and managed, and certainly never saw a 

 heavy regiment more splendidly mounted in my life. The whole of 

 the artillery was horsed from the same region, and with precisely the 

 stamp of horse which I now see daily before the New York express 

 vans ; and I myself heard a very distinguished officer of rank, who 

 has won still higher distinction in the Crimea, say that the artillery 

 had never, in his knowledge of the service, been better, if so well, 

 horsed, as it was while in Canada. It may be worth while to add 

 that the Hussars, when ordered home, as is usual, in order to save the 

 expense of transportation, sold their horses; but the dragoon guards 

 and artillery took the greater part of theirs, and especially the mares, 

 home with them, owing to their superior quality". 



Arabian Ranger was a dappled gray, rising fifteen hands, foaled 

 about 1762, and was owned by Col. Wyllis of Hartford, Conn. His first 

 known advertisement is in the "Connecticut Courant" in 1/70, to stand 

 near Hartford in charge of James Nicholls. He is described in this 

 advertisement as " of a fine dapple gray color, rising fifteen hands 

 high, and is allowed by competent judges to be the completest horse 

 ever brought to America." The advertisement also states: "He is 

 a horse of fine strength and beauty, equal perhaps to any in Ameri- 

 ca ; of the true Barbary breed, bred in England". And says further : 

 " He is the same horse that was in my keeping last season". This ad- 

 vertisement is substantially repeated in 1776. In 1778 his advertise- 

 ment in the same paper says: "The improved Arabian horse called 

 the Ranger, formerly owned by Col. Wyllis of Hartford, is now 

 owned by James Hyde of Windham". Hyde advertised him again 

 in 1779, and the same season and 1780 he is advertised in the "Vir- 

 ginia Gazette" as follows : "Ranger, an imported Arabian horse, near 

 Port Royal, on my farm. William Lindsay". It is stated on good 

 authority that Lindsay paid for the horse 125 hogsheads of tobacco, 

 equal to 605 guineas. The Albany, New York, "Register" of April, 

 1 8 1 1, says: "More elegant saddle horses were bred from the old 

 Ranger, or Hartford horse, than from any three other horses ever im- 

 ported to America". A correspondent of Skinner's "Turf Register", 

 in 1829, vol. I, p. 377, who saw Ranger in Virginia, says: "He was 

 a white horse of the most perfect form and symmetry, rather above 

 fifteen hands, of gallant temper and very elegant carriage". In the adver- 



