2 ON THE EXTERNAL CONFORMATION. 



The horse possesses speed, strength, and 

 beauty, conjunctively in a degree far superior to 

 all other animals. He is also more docile, and 

 more easily applied to the service of man, whether 

 for luxurious or laborious uses. For the pur- 

 poses of parade he is peculiarly adapted, by a 

 beautiful proportion and an innate pride and 

 grandeur of deportment, particularly manifest 

 in the manege, w^here, by the spirit and ele- 

 gance of his movements, he appears to partici- 

 pate with his rider in the ostentatious pleasure. 

 When employed in the field or the race, he 

 visibly demonstrates the ardour of emulation, 

 and finally merits our gratitude, by the patience 

 and perseverance with which he endures the 

 lower offices of labour and hardships of fatigue. 



An animal possessing such estimable quali- 

 ties, must certainly have claims on our attention 

 sufficient to call forth an inquiry into his struc- 

 ture and animal oeconomy, on more scientific 

 principles than has hitherto been accomplished. 



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