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breast. These horses were handsomer than most horses about. I was 

 twelve years old or younger when Gravelin had his. He sold him to go to St. 

 Francois, below Sorel". 



M. Allaire, St. Ours, said : " My father sold a horse over sixty years 

 ago to Baptiste Recollet of Sorel. This horse was very fast". 



An old gentleman of St. Ours, born 1798, whose name we failed to take, 

 said : " M. Allaire sold the Duhamel horse to Recollet. I remember the 

 Gravelin Horse, a pacer and trotter ; he was heavy, with a large chest. When 

 I was fifteen they raced the pacers here on the ice. Michel Guion had a 

 sorrel pacer, that was quite fast, before the Duhamel Horse ; a handsome 

 horse. When I was ten years old I saw them race after church. They paced ; 

 very rarely trotted.. There were not so many English horses as now. I 

 never heard of Narragansetts. There were some roan horses". 



Mrs. Gravelin of St. Ours, born about 1815, said : "The Duhamel horses 

 were called Dutch. They were very handsome, and fast pacers. I saw both 

 the black and the gray stallion that he owned, and also a horse that Uncle 

 Gravelin owned, which I understood to be Dutch ". 



Charles Baptiste St. George of St. Ours, born 1797, said: "Duhamel 

 had a fast pacer, before I was married, that he sold to Charles Allaire of St. 

 Ours, who had him quite a while. I was married in 1821. I knew the 

 horse before I was married and knew him when Allaire owned him. Duhamel 

 owned him when I was married. Allaire sold him, I think to some party in 

 the States. He was a black pacer and fast. I think Duhamel raised him, 

 but do not know. Do not often see as pretty a horse as he. He had a gray 

 stallion that was larger than the black, and he both paced and trotted. They 

 had all the mares they could serve ". 



M. Gravelin of St. Ours, born August 23d, 1806, said: "Duhamel's 

 black horse was sired by the Gascon La Rocque Horse, and his gray one was 

 sired by the black. The Gascon La Rocque Horse was a Dutch horse ; my 

 uncle, Joseph Gravelin, owned him at one time. He was gray or roan, and 

 was about as old as I was. He trotted in the snow, and if the road was good, 

 would pace. When I was four or five years old, mares came from everywhere 

 to him. Duhamel's black horse was got by this roan horse of my uncle's, 

 and I have often heard my uncle say that his horse came from a Dutch or 

 English horse. This horse of my uncle's, or the Gascon La Rocque Horse, 

 was about fifteen and a quarter or fifteen and a half hands high, un grand 

 cheval. La Rocque bought him when a sucking colt of Vital Dupre" of St. 

 Ours, and sold him to my uncle, who kept him until he was seven years old, 

 and sold him to go to the States. The Americans came and got all the good 

 horses. He was built very different from the French horses. French horses 

 made all to once, big belly. Dutch horses handsomer and finer. Duhamel's 

 gray horse was three years younger than his sire, the black. Alex C. Dupre, 

 son of Vital Dupre, is now living at St. Paul, Minn. 



"This gray or roan horse owned by my uncle was heavier than your gray 

 team (fifteen hands, nine hundred and fifty pounds each), and a little taller; 



