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the ruminantia, under the name Solipedes. Baron 

 Cuvier adopted this classification in his first edi- 

 tion of the Regne Animal, but subsequently 

 placed it in the order Pachydermata. The fol- 

 lowing are distinctions of the horse according to 

 Linnaeus. 



The tail is long, with hair all over ; the mane is 

 long, and he is without any humeral stripe. It 

 is a generous, proud, and strong animal ; fit for 

 all the purposes of man ; for the draught, the 

 course, or the road ; he is delighted with the 

 freedom of open pastures ; he is fearful of being 

 touched on his hinder quarters ; defends himself 

 from the flies with his tail, scratches his fellow, 

 defends his young, calls by neighing, sleeps after 

 night-fall, fights by kicking and biting, rolls on 

 the ground when weary and perspiring, bites the 

 grass closer than the ox, wants a gall-bladder, 

 never vomits ; the foal is produced with the 

 legs stretched out ; he is injured by being struck 

 on the ear, or upon the stifle, by his being caught 

 by the nose in barracks, by having his teeth 

 rubbed wdth grease, and by various herbs. His 

 diseases vary in diflerent countries and climates. 

 With us the glanders, a consumption of the 

 ethmoid bones of the nose, called the nose, is the 

 most fatal and infectious disease. He eats hem- 

 lock without injury ; he has no canine teeth till 

 five years of age. 



*' Of all quadrupeds,'* says Buflbn, '' the horse 



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