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ArT. XXXL—The Evolution of the American Trotting-Horse ; 
by Wm. H. BREWER. 
called a definite breed in which the special and distinctive 
Incidental to the preparation of a paper pertaining to this 
e compiled and collated 
1 as economic value, 
rn more interesting portion of 
he horse has several gaits 
assumed it, and until] within a century th 
cultivated nor wanted by any class of horsemen. 
fast trotters, had it been miraculously created, would doubtless 
Soon bave perished in that it would have had no use, satisfied 
no faney and found no place in either the social og industrial 
World as it then was. 
