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THE HORSE. 



perpendicular to the ground should divide the hoof into 

 two portions ; also the canon and calcaneum and touch 

 the point of the buttocks. 



Panard 



Ca.aneux . 



Oambre 



Fig. 39- 



At the commencement of this chapter, it was 

 remarked that the space between the hind feet was 

 generally less than that which separates the fore feet, 

 when the animal is naturally in repose (Fig. A). The 

 verification which can be made upon the skeleton fully 

 demonstrates this. 



For the 



determining 

 am making 



Fig. A. 



purpose of 

 statistics, I 

 use of an 

 animal of Mecklenburg 

 in the anatomical gallery 

 of the Museum. It was, 

 in all probability, a strong 

 horse, since its head is 

 65 centimeters ; the size 

 of its pelvis (size of the 

 croup), from one anterior 

 angle of the ilium to the 

 other, measures fifty-five 

 centimeters. The ischial 

 tuberosities (points of the 

 buttocks) are only twenty 

 centimeters apart from 

 one another, w r hich, upon 

 the ground, constitutes 

 the separation of two 

 lines, which all the 



