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hands instead of fore-feet, which he tells us belonged to 

 Julius Caesar, and would suffer no one else to mount him. 

 " Cains Julius Ccesar utehatur equo insigni pedibus peope 

 humanis et in niodum difjitorum unguJis fosis/' 8fC. — as a 

 writer in Knight's C)''clopccdia very justly observes — this 

 may have only been some malformation of the hoof, like 

 that in the case of the animal exhibited in Walsall; but 

 whether it was merely a malformation or not, the painter 

 has represented the animal with two human hands, having 

 on each four fingers and a thumb, and also nails. 



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