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Rambler, behind ; with him he would take the first vessel sail- 

 ing from Hull to America. Rambler should bear him company 

 to the New Eldorado, or they would both share one common 

 grave in the bosom of the Atlantic. 



The result of this decision was "that after a somewhat long, 

 dreary, and perilous voyage in a sail vessel of those times, our 

 hero, with his companion, was landed in Newport, R. I. His 

 final destination being Kingstown, a country bordering on the 

 west shore of Narragansett bay, he took passage in a sail boat 

 from Newport to the Narragansett country, still accompanied 

 by his horse Rambler. During the voyage, and somewhere 

 about midway, it is said, between Beavertail, on Canonicot 

 Island, and Narragansett Beach (now Narragansett Pier), the 

 boat capsized and the horse swam for the shore, some three 

 miles, and several days afterwards was found in the woods on 

 what is now called Boston Neck. Hence the legend by some 

 that the paternal ancestor of this race of horses was found 

 swimming at sea ; and by others that he was found running 

 wild in the woods in the Narragansett country. 



Upon arriving in this new and wild country our young 

 Englishman found, to his mortification and annoyance, that, 

 although possessed of one of the finest and best "galloping 

 saddlers" in England, the new country afforded no roads suita- 

 ble to ride upon ; instead of roads were to be found but Indian 

 trails and bridle paths and even these were handicapped with 

 rocks and stones. These circumstances compelled Daniel to 

 change the gait of Rambler from a gallop to a pace or "rack" 

 as it was then called, which he easily acquired. 



This stallion was kept as a stock horse for many years by 

 his owner and importer, and was, for those times, very gener- 

 ally patronized, especially throughout the southern and south- 

 western counties of Rhode Island and the district of Stoning- 

 ton, Conn. 



He became the paternal progenitor of a race of pacers ; it 

 is said that his colts all paced from the start, and that his sons 

 begat pacers, and when his daughters were bred to pacing sires 



