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the winter and latter part of the summer and autumn of each year, 

 and one or two years during all the seasons. During the years 1830 

 and 1831, he remained at their stable at Bradford. The season of 

 1832, he was kept at Keene, New Hampshire; the season of 1833, 

 he was kept at Burlington, Vermont, and the seasons of 1835 and 

 1836, he was kept at Bradford and vicinity. In September, 1836, 

 Mr. Burbank having died, the administrators of his estate sold him 

 to Norman Baglee of Alabama, who took him to Gainesville in that 

 State, where he died in 1838, being twenty-two years old". 



No trace has come to us of any stock that he got in Alabama, 

 and we have been very credibly informed that he had a leg broken 

 in being taken off the boat on his arrival there, an accident which 

 caused his death. 



This is the account of his death that Mr. Linsley gives, and may 

 be correct, but we have been informed by parties that thought they 

 knew, that he died from the effects of a broken leg, which he received 

 on his arrival at Gainesville, in disembarkment. Mr. Linsley states 

 that he was shipped from Boston on board a small sailing vessel. 



The following accurate description of Woodbury Morgan is from 

 Mr. Linsley's work: "Woodbury was fourteen and three-quarter 

 hands high, and weighed from nine hundred and eighty-eight pounds 

 to ten hundred and forty pounds ; he was weighed several times, and 

 these two statements of his weight, at different times, are the extremes. 

 Many persons who have frequently seen him weighed say they never 

 knew him to weigh more than ten hundred and thirty, nor less than 

 ten hundred and fifteen pounds. He was a dark, rich chestnut; his 

 off hind leg was white from the foot half-way to the hock, and he had 

 a white stripe in his face, beginning at the edge of the upper lip, 

 filling the space between the nostrils, and extending more than half- 

 way to his eyes. His mane was not very thick, or long, and was 

 lighter than either of the others, still it was full. His tail was cut off 

 when a colt, and left about ten inches long; the hair was very full, 

 and curly; both mane and tail were about the same color as his 

 body. The hair on the body was fine, short and soft. He was close 

 and compactly built, with heavy quarters and deep flanks ; his chest 

 was good and the shoulders finely shaped ; he had a short back, and 

 broad, sinewy loins. His legs had some long hairs on the back side, 

 but were well-shaped, somewhat larger than Sherman's and not so 

 large as Bulrush's. His head was small and lean, with a fine, firm 

 muzzle, the nostrils very large and full, face straight, very wide be- 

 tween the eyes, which were dark hazel, very large and prominent, 



