Observations on the breeding of horses, within the Provinces under the Bengal establishment, submitted to the consideration of the President and members of the Board of Superintendence [of the East India Company, 1814].

Moorcroft, William.

Date:: 1862

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Credit: Observations on the breeding of horses, within the Provinces under the Bengal establishment, submitted to the consideration of the President and members of the Board of Superintendence [of the East India Company, 1814]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Commercial Inter¬ course with Ceutral Tiirtary. Bhawl-wool (rade with the Chinase Tartara. The disagi-eeable part of reflection is softened by the \] liberal, the benevolent expressions of the Right Honorable ; I the Governor General in Council Accidentally failing in the primary object, when I had surmounted the principal difficulties towards attaining it, I had a glimpse of political relations, which, from recent events, are no longer perhaps of importance. And I gained a near vieAv of a commercial intercourse, which, if duly cultivated, might perhaps tend to repay il some of the past expenses of the Stud, may furnish a new and long wanted material to the British manufacturer, and may give employment, at their own houses, to the re¬ duced, to the infirm, and to the indigent. ■■f Pressing necessity for procuring gootl Purent Stock, obvious from that of the Stud and of the country in general. 7' King of Bokhara re¬ fuses pcrniisfiion. Prince of Bulkh invites. King of Kabool senda a passport. Armngcmente conse¬ quent on the attainment of Parent btock. To the procuring of gopd Parent Stock every other con¬ sideration in Stud concerns is subordinate. The loss in the Stud mainly originates from the first bad step, the faulty composition of the Stud at its outset. Ever since I examined the Stock of the Stud, and of the country in general, I have been fully convinced, that no solid permanent advantages Avould be realized, till this error could be retrieved. Upon the means of doing this my attention has been perseveringly fixed, and it is now in a degree recompensed in the prospect of success conveyed through the offers of protection and of civility, sent to me by the King of Kabool and his Wuzeer, and by the Prince of Bulkh and Khooloom. The original letters with their translations I beg now to submit to the Board. This result proves the influence of the British name. It evinces also the practicability and consistency of projects sometimes regarded as visionary speculations, the fruit of heated fancy, rather than the legitimate oflfepring of rea¬ soned combination. Possessed of Parent Stock, arrangements may be execu¬ ted, which, for want of such instruments, were heretofore of no practical value.$