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best horses for service I have been familiar with, either in Vermont 

 or Massachusetts. PAUL CHASE. 



Woodstock, Vermont, August I9th, 1851 ". 



"This may certify that I have known the Green Mountain Mor- 

 gan horse for nine or ten years past, and have ever during that time 

 considered him the most perfect horse I ever saw. I have also 

 known many of his colts, and think that for good disposition, beauty, 

 speed and hardihood of constitution they are unsurpassed. Hav- 

 ing a disposition to improve the breed of horses in New Hampshire, 

 I determined to buy a stock horse sired by this celebrated stallion. 

 I accordingly purchased a dark chestnut Green Mountain colt, four 

 years old past, of Joel Hayward of Ashby, Massachusetts, and paid 

 eight hundred dollars for the same. S. F. WRIGHT. 



Nashua, New Hampshire, August 26th, 1851 ". 



" I have owned several horses that were sired by the celebrated 

 Green Mountain Morgan horse, owned by Mr. Hale, and I do not 

 hesitate to say that so far as I have been able to judge of the quality 

 of the stock of this stallion, it is of the highest order. 



R. SHURTLIFF. 



Island House, Bellows Falls, Vermont, August 2Oth, 1851 ". 



The "Vermont Stock Journal" of September, 1857, says: 

 "Green Mountain Morgan was the acknowledged chief of all horses 

 exhibited at the United States fair on the 9th, loth and nth of this 

 month". 



An account of the State fair at Saratoga, New York, in the 

 "Spirit of the Times" for 1844, says: "Black Hawk, the famous 

 Morgan horse, was there. I did not see him, but there were others 

 of the same variety on the ground, particularly a very dark chestnut, 

 almost black stallion, called, I believe, Green Mountain Morgan. He 

 was thirteen years old, got by the old Gifford Morgan, also on the 

 ground. There were also two other stallions exhibited, got by the 

 same. The four bore a close family resemblance both in appear- 

 ance and action. There is a difference of opinion in relation to 

 these animals, but I willingly plead guilty to a great admiration for 

 them ; such promptness and fire, with such perfect docility, I never 

 saw united in any other species. Not one of them was over fifteen 

 hands high, scarcely that ; but when moving I never saw such majesty 

 embodied in horse flesh as was displayed by Green Mountain Mor- 

 gan. His arched neck seemed clothed with thunder, and his floating 

 mane, his eye of fire, his red, distended nostrils, his open mouth 

 with the rigid tendons about it, standing out in sharp relief, realized 



