VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



EXTERIOR. 



PAGE 



Beauty — Goodness — Regions. i. Anterior — Head — Cranium 

 — Forehead — Ears — Supra-orbit — Eye — Cheek — Face — 

 Respiratory organs — Nostrils — Tip of the nose — Lips — 

 Mouth — Chin — Jaws — Inferior maxillary — Remark — 

 Description of form of head represented by the old 

 masters — Neck — Mane — Withers — Chest — Shoulder — 

 Arm — Fore-arm — Elbow — Knee — Canon — Fetlock — 

 Pastern — Coronet — Foot — Hoof. 2. Body — Back — Loins 

 — Breast and ribs — Stomach — Flank — Genital organs. 

 3. Posterior — Croup — Tail — Anus — Haunch — Buttock 

 Thigh — Stifle — Hind-leg — Hock — Corresponding portions 

 of the skeleton of a horse with that of a man 42 



CHAPTER V. 



BLEMISHES. 



Osseous blemishes — Soft blemishes 69 



CHAPTER VI. 



PROPORTIONS. 



Accurate ideas — The head selected as the standard of 

 measurement — The vertical of the withers — Height of 

 the horse — Length of the horse — Comparative experi- 

 ments — Pose of the horse 71 



CHAPTER VII. 



PERPENDICULAR. 



Basis of the sustentation — Horse placed — Direction of the 

 members — Horse under itself — Horse camped — Remark 

 upon the small posterior side of the base — Station — 

 Free — Constrained — Gathered up — Position of men on 

 horseback — Seat of the rider — Aids — Employment of 

 aids — Project of typical group summarizing the different 

 comparative mensurations taken on man and horse — 

 Myological study of the horse ... ... ... ... ... 84 



