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His limbs were perfectly smooth, clean, free from any swelling, and 

 perfectly limber and supple. Those persons who saw him in 1819 

 and 1820 describe his appearance as remarkably fresh and youthful. 

 Age had not quenched his spirit, nor damped the ardor of his tem- 

 per; years of severest labor had not sapped his vigor, nor broken his 

 constitution ; his eye was still bright, and his step firm and elastic. 



" However various may be the opinions different persons may 

 entertain respecting the merits of the Justin Morgan, we doubt 

 whether any horse can be instanced, in this or any other country, 

 that has so strikingly impressed upon his descendants, to the fifth 

 and sixth generations, his own striking and valuable characteristics ; 

 and it may be safely asserted that the stock of no horse ever bred in 

 this country has proved so generally and largely profitable to its 

 breeders. The raising of it has made the fortunes of hundreds 

 of individuals, and added hundreds of thousands, if not millions of 

 dollars, to the wealth of Vermont and New Hampshire." 



We close this sketch with the eloquent and deserved tribute of 

 Mr. W. H. H. Murray: "The Morgans are the very embodiment of 

 every quality and characteristic which is called for in a roadster. In 

 them the poetry of equine nature and motion is expressed and set to 

 music. In action they make a heroic appearance, and their hoofs beat 

 melody from the path. In them is dash and shine and rythm. They 

 strike the road with the same nervous stroke with which the pigeon 

 in full career strikes the air, and, like that tense-winged courier of the 

 sky, they laugh at hills, and mount them with a dash of spirited flight." 



