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Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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gons studded the ornate stables—the wholeglaring, white, and over-gorgeous, like listening to thenoise of a brass band. There are some gentler, more home-like places, and re-calling the tone of rural life at the East. Such a one isthat of ex-Governor Leland Stanford, at Palo Alto. Hereis a breeding farm for horses, one of the most complete ofthe kind in the world. Of seventeen hundred acres onehundred are occupied by stables, barns, and small pad-docks, which, at the foot of a gentle rise of ground, makea small city by themselves. It is inhabited by a popula-tion of nearly five hundred animals, who return hitherfrom business, as it were, in the pastures and race-tracks,and have two hundred persons employed in their domes-tic service. The spacious stables are uniformly flooredand ceiled up with redwood, strewn with the fresheststraw, and kept as neat as the most unexceptionabledrawing-room. Scions of the stock, representing the best thoroughbred 354 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES.
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and trotting strainsin the country, arean important influ-ence in improvingthe breed of horsesthroughout the Pa-cific slope. It washere that the curiousexperiments wereconducted, at thePALO ALTO. expense of Gover- nor Stanford, for ar-riving at a better understanding of the speed of horsesby photographing them in motion. The photographer,Muybridge, of San Francisco, succeeded, by an ingeniousarrangement of electrical wires, communicating with cam-eras, in securing twelve distinct views of a single stride.The attitudes are of the most unexpected sort, and someof them even comic. THE VILLAS OF THE BONANZA KINGS. 355 From the time of foaling the colts are gently handled,and made as familiar with the touch of harness as withthat of human hands. As a consequence thej are tame,gentle, and even affectionate, and never need formalbreaking. The effect of the system of training has beenapparent in some notable records of speed. On the BayDistrict Association track, at San Francisco, in 18S0, th

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