ZOOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION. 



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On each side above and below, and at some distance from the incisors. 

 Ijehind the canines and with some intervening space, are six molar teeth 

 or grinders; and these molar teeth have flat crowns with ridges of enamel, 

 and that enamel penetrating into the substance of the tooth. 



The whole is thus represented by natural historians, and the reader wih 

 comprehend our meaning when we are speaking of other animals. 

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Horse. — Incisors — , Canine , Molar , Total, 40 teeth. 



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CHAPTER VI. 



THE EXTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE HORSE. 



A The Head. 



o Posterior maxillary or under jaw. 



6 Superior maxillary or upper jaw. Opposite to the letter is a forair^v, th ■ug'% 



which pass the nerves and blood-vessels which chiefly supply the lo»«r p? t of 



the face, 

 f Orbit, or cavity containing' the eye. 

 d Naial bones, or bones of the nose. 



e Suture dividing' the parietal bones below from the occipital bones abo\e. 

 f Inferior maxillary bone, containing' the upper incisor teeth. 

 B The Seven Cervical Vertebra;, or bones of the neck. 

 C The Eig-hleen Dorsal Vertebra;, or bones of the back. 

 D The Six Lumbar Vertebra, or bones of the loins. 



