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§ 103. In the hear, dec, the pieces of the foot are 

 still five, and all of them are still applied flat on 

 the ground. In the dog they are reduced to four ; 

 the digits themselves are still put flat on the 

 ground, but the bones (analogous to the palm of 

 the hand in man) which carry the digits, are raised 

 upright. In the horse, ox, <&c., not only these, but 

 all tln-ee sections of the digits (these sections may 

 be counted in the joints of a man's fingers) are also 

 set upright, and the animal moves, as it were, on 

 its nails which have now become " hoofs." At the 

 same time, in these last animals, the bones which 

 carry the digits have been very much lengthened, 

 and form the " cannon." In the horse, the 

 third and fourth digit (as we should suppose) 

 have been consolidated into one, and form, by 

 their joints, the "large and small pastern bones" 

 and the "coffin bone." In the cannon of the 

 horse's leg, the third and fourth of the bones 

 which carry the digits, are consohdated into the 



horse, excepting " Partisan," aD animal, by subduing which Baucher 

 founded his reputation. 



Thus, Captain Kaabe seeks to establish the high character of the 

 human walk, and to refute the slander which, he adds, has represented 

 it as a sort of broken down amble. Our description would count the 

 heel as a support only when supplying the failure of the outer toes to 

 perform their functions, and, therefore, cannot fit. in with his supposi- 

 tion. 



