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detached from the leg bone, and the fetlock some- 

 what prominent, and furnished with a small tuft of 

 long hair behind ; the pasterns should be of a mid- 

 dling length and pretty large ; the coronet a little 

 elevated, the hoof black, solid, and shining ; the 

 instep high, the quarters round, the heels broad, 

 and a little prominent ; the frog thin and small, 

 and the sole thick and concave. 



The colours of horses are extremely variable, 

 and they are generally thus distinguished. Bay 

 is of various shades, viz : a black bay, brown 

 bay, and dapple bay ; these have always black 

 manes and tails ; — dun and mouse dun, these have 

 frequently a black list along the spine ; flea-bitten, 

 which is white, spotted with a reddish colour ; 

 grey, dapple-grey, silver-grey, sad or powdered 

 grey, black grey, branded-grey, sandy-grey, and 

 iron-grey ; grissel or rount, is a light flesh colour 

 intermixed with white ; peach colour or blossom 

 colour. Piebald consists of two colours, one of 

 them white ; roan is bay, black, or sorrel, inter- 

 mixed with white hair ; rubicund black or sorrel, 

 with a few white hairs scattered about his body ; 

 chesnut, light and dark ; sorrel, common sorrel, 

 red sorrel, bright or red coloured sorrel, burnt 

 sorrel ; starling colour, resembling a brownish or 

 blackish grey, only more freckled or intermixed with 

 white ; tiger colour, some branded grey, only the 

 spots smaller; wolf-colour, cream-colour, deer colour, 

 black, white, &c., with many other modifications. 



