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exported from Rhode Island. The only evidence, 
however, that I can find, tending to show that Mr. 
Hull’s project was carried out is the following in- 
dignant and righteous letter written by him some 
years later to one William Heffernan: “I am in- 
formed that you are so shameless that you offered 
to sell some of my horses. I would have you know 
that they are by God’s good providence mine. Do 
you bring me in some good security for my money 
that is justly owing, and I shall be willing to give 
you some horses, that you shall not need to offer to 
steal any.” 
At all events, the Narragansett pacers had a wide 
reputation, and were sold in great numbers. In an 
account of the American Colonies, published at Dub- 
lin in 1753, and written by a clergyman of the English 
Church, we find the following: “The produce of 
this Colony [Rhode Island] is principally butter and 
cheese, fat cattle, wool, and fine horses, that are ex- 
ported to all parts of the English Americas. They 
are remarkable for fleetness and swift pacing; and 
I have seen some of them pace a mile in little more 
than two minutes, a good deal less than three.” 
This last statement is doubtless exaggerated, but not 
more so than is to be expected even from a clergyman 
writing about horses. 
Since the Narragansett pacers became extinct, we 
have had no family of horses in New England bred 
especially for riding, although the Morgans, of whom 
I have spoken so often in the course of this book, are 
excellent for that purpose. The trot of the best and 
lightest Morgan families is peculiarly fit for the 
saddle, being short, smooth, and, above all, extremely 
elastic. 
