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specimens to the United States. It was not, how- 

 ever, until 1839 that he succeeded in putting this 

 determination into effect, and then bad luck pur- 

 sued his venture; only one of the first four head 

 shipped reached America- alive, and this sole sur- 

 vivor was a mare. Nothing daunted, Mr. Harris 

 immediately took ship again for France, and re- 

 turned this time with two stallions, one named Dili- 

 gence, and two mares, one of which died shortly 

 after landing. This importation, it would appear, 

 had only a passing influence on the native stock of 

 New Jersey. One of the stallions went blind during 

 his first year in this country and was permanently 

 retired from service. One of the mares named Dap- 

 ple proved a non-breeder, while the other, Joan, a 

 gray, produced a gray colt, a chestnut filly, and a 

 bay colt at successive foalings, all being got by the 

 gray Diligence. Joan's next and last foal, bom in 

 1856, was a bay by Harmer's Norman, a stallion 

 said to have been imported and not hitherto located, 

 but which will be definitely referred to later on. 

 Diligence was a compactly built horse standing 

 about 15 hands high, and according to his owner he 

 begot about 400 foals. He died in 1856. One mare, 

 Julie, foaled in 1851, and two stallions, Diligence 2d 

 and Louis Philippe, all by Diligence, were entered 

 among the foundation animals accepted for registry 

 in the first volume of the American Stud Book. 



Ohio Importations of 1851. — ^In another volume the 

 author has shown that the cattle stocks of the mid- 

 west states were profoundly influenced by the im- 



