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direction, while the windpipe is so much detached that 

 the line was carried away quite a distance from the lower 

 part of the neck. The length of a horse's back would 

 hardly be agreed upon by two men measuring the same 

 animal at different periods. The length given in the table 

 is from the springing of the withers to the " coupling." 



A line from the posterior part of the shoulder-blades 

 to the hip would take away enough from the twenty-five 

 inches, to render his back no longer than that of 

 Eclipse or Doubloon. The distance from "hip to hip 

 over the loin " shows that the points of his hips are more 

 elevated than the rest, with the exception of Leviathan, 

 which is also shown by the great distance from the "point 

 of the hip to the point of the hock." The girth depend- 

 ing greatly on the condition of the horse, and the pre- 

 sumption being that Leviathan, Eclipse, and Doubloon 

 were not in training when the measurements were taken, 

 and that Lecomte and Dexter carried about the same 

 flesh, their lower condition would account for the' dis- 

 crepancy in the circumference of the chest. 



The same remark will apply to the measurement round 

 the flank, which could he still more varied by the stomach 

 being full or empty, the length of time in training, &c. 



The next distance in the table is the height of the elbow 

 above the ground surface, which is the same as in Eclipse 

 who was an inch lower, one inch greater than Doubloon, 

 two inches being the variation in their height, three- 

 quarters of an inch less than Leviathan, and three-quar- 

 ters more than Lecomte. There is therefore no marked 

 distinction in this point. We now come to a measurement 

 showing the volume of muscle in a place that is acknowl- 

 edged to have a good deal to do with rapid progression, 

 viz: the circumference of the arm at the swell. These 

 muscles acting on the ligaments and tendons which 

 extend the fore-leg, and the power with which they act, 



