22 THE GALLOP. 



of the bit), or the cadence is broken by an interval between 

 the foot-falls of the hind-feet and those of the fore-feet, 

 or the motion is irregular, the horse is not in the gallop. 



THE DIAGRAM. 



In support of what I have said, I offer the accompanying 

 diagram, in which the foot-marks of the horse in the run 

 and in the canter have been designed from the plates in 

 Governor Stanford's book, and the prints of the hoofs 

 in the gallop represent the results of experiments I made 

 with horses ridden at that pace upon the hard sand of the 

 seashore. 



THE PHOTOGRAPHS. 



I also offer some photographs taken by Mr. John 

 Annan of Edinburgh (see Plate III.). These true repre- 

 sentations of the galloping horse have not been corrected 

 or tampered with in any way, and are given exactly as 

 they were taken upon the negatives, with all their 

 imperfections. 



From a consideration of the diagram, and from the 

 comparison of my photographs with those of the running 

 horse in Governor Stanford's work, the reader may 

 readily determine whether the gallop and the run are 

 identical paces. 



If the gallop be not a gait distinct from the run and 



