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we have seen strength, to be stowed away in a 

 less triangle, the space laterally has to be en- 

 croached upon. So that given the same weight 

 of head, and strength and length of neck, the 

 higher the withers the thinner from side to side 

 will be the neck, hence we find as a general thing 

 that horses with low withers have more, so-caUed, 

 fleshy necks than those with high withers, be- 

 cause these muscles are stowed and have to act 

 at a greater disadvantage. 



THE NECK AND HEAD. 



42. — We have next to consider the neck and 

 head together as weights and as f ulcrums, also as 

 power. The head as a whole may be regarded as 

 a solid mass attached to the foremost part of the 

 neck at a variable angle. The upper and fore- 

 most part of the bones of the neck meets the 

 head at its very top, (Fig. Y, B) that barely two 

 inches of the head is above the bony juncture of 

 the head and neck. 



By this arrangement we get a lever of the first 

 order which moves the head as a rigid bar up and 

 down, the neck being fixed and acting as a ful- 

 crum. The upper arm of the lever, we have said, 

 is about two inches in length only, and so allows 

 it, whilst moving through very little space itself, 

 to move through great space the lower and longer 

 arm of the lever made up at the head generally. 

 The head has a side to side movement also, but 

 we shall not stop to consider it in any way be- 

 cause we think our ends may be gained without 



