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OF THE VARIED FORM OF THE HORSE, 

 ACCORDING TO THE SEVERAL USES TO 

 WHICH HE IS APPLIED. 



*' It is evident," says Mr. Blaine, in his valuable work, 

 Veterinary Outlines, " that, according to the several 

 purposes to which we apply the horse, so great vari- 

 ations in his bulk and proportions are necessary. The 

 fleetest racer that ever scoured the plain would cut a 

 sorry figure in a London coal-waggon ; and the most 

 splendid among the stallions of Barclay's brewing 

 establishment would be ill-fitted for a breathing over 

 the courses of Newmarket or Doncaster. Let us 

 figure to ourselves four Shetlanders in a Portsmouth 

 drag, or Lord Sefton's buggy-horse in a garden chair 

 or pony-chaise, and we shall be at once convinced that. 

 had not climate operated in producing different races 

 of horses, and with very different proportions, the in- 

 dustry of man would still have enlisted the agencies oi 

 domestication to bend his frame, as well as those of 

 horned cattle and of the dog, to his purpose. 



" The form of the racer at once points him out as an 

 animal intended for great velocity of motion. ,His ab- 

 original outline, as derived from the east, betrayed a 

 similar intention ; and as his uses have been principally 

 confined to a display of these powers of locomotion, so 

 it has been the endeavour of the breeders of this variety, 

 by the arts of domestication, to mould his form, and 

 fashion his organs, to a capability for velocity even 

 greater than that intended by nature ; which is evident 

 by the circumstance, that none of the eastern horses 

 can now compete with our race-horse. But to effect 

 this in any great degree, some of those qualities which 

 in most of the other uses to which the horse is put are 



