IS ON THE EXTERNAL CONFOKMATION. 

 ribbed home, as it is termed, that is to say, there 

 exists but a small space between the last rib and 

 the hip bone. This conformation is justly- 

 esteemed excellent. A horse thus formed is 

 generally short in the back and wide in his loins, 

 and better adapted to carry weight and bear fa- 

 tigue than a horse of a difterent form. 



Horses of this description, however, are 

 commonly supposed to be deficient in speed, 

 from the idea that they have not sufficient 

 length. But when it is considered that the car- 

 case has no motion of itself, but is entirely acted 

 upon by the quarters and extremities, it is mani- 

 fest that the length should exist in these parts, 

 and not in the body. In proof of this, two 

 horses may be found exactly of the same length 

 from the point of the shoulder, at the chest, to 

 the point of the buttock, and yet one horse 

 shall be long in the carcase, and the other short. 

 Vide plate 5, fig. 1 and 2. 



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