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the smallest possible bones, and a little bit
of a snout just protruding beyond the
huge round cheeks were incessant. The idea
had generally prevailed in France that for commerce
and certain classes of cheap manufactures
the English were "tres forts", and that they
also bred very fleet horses. But the genius
and perseverance which in a totally distinct
branch of civilisation had succeeded in
creating these perefections of form, was
I am sure quite a new discovery to
the great mass of even thinking Frenchmen. Many were the questions
asked of me by people from the Provinces,
and the comments they made. How had
these races been created? Under what circumstances?
To what extent was artificial treatment
bestowed upon them? "You are a great &
wise people, and we seem only now to be
acquiring some idea of you". Such and
hundreds of similar remarks I constantly
had made to me, and many a bargain
I helped to make between the downright