SKELETON OF THE HORSE. 



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trunk is raised higli above tlie ground, and is more re- 

 markable for its depth than breadth, especially at the 

 fore part; the neck is long and arched; the jaws long 

 and slender, being produced so as to facilitate the act of 

 cropping the grass, and leaving so much space between 



Fig. 28. 



HORSE {Eqnns cahcdlus). 



the front teeth, i, and the grinders, w, as permits man to 

 insert the instrument called " bit" into the mouth, where- 

 by he masters and guides his noble and valuable four- 

 footed ally, as the ship is steered by the helm. 



Were every animal constructed expressly and exclu- 

 sively for its own peculiar habits of life, and irrespective 

 of any common pattern, it could scarcely be expected^ 



