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class, which one may with safety declare will 

 never run, and many of these are handsome not- 

 withstanding. But an ugly horse may have as 

 much chance of running as a handsome one, j)ro- 

 vided the different essential running parts of his 

 frame harmonize ; that the joints are all equally 

 corresponding with the size, and that the hind 

 parts agree in relation to the fore parts, for " ug- 

 liness, though the opposite of beauty, is not the 

 opposite of proportion and fitness," * and so it is 

 with the horse. 



To distinguish high caste appears a very com- 

 plex affair at the imperial mart of the Bomb 

 Proof: but, produce me an Arab with a straight 

 spine, and a straight long quarter ; a muscular 

 and handsome dropped hind leg ; a round barrel, 

 swelling well out behind the elbows, with great 

 depth of girth, and a moderately broad but flat 

 chest ; a very oblique and deep shoulder ; a light 

 neck ; a well set on lean head, with a large bril- 

 liant eye, thin open nostril, deep mouth, wide 

 clear jowl, and small silky ear; — ^give me this 

 make, with the upper inner bone of the knees and 

 hocks large, and hinder bone of each also large, and 

 the back sinews clear, powerful, and wide away 

 from the suspensory ligament ; the whole covered 



* Burke on the Sublime. 



