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tropics, a like though less conspicuous decrease in bulk is 

 observable. The largest animals of the species develop in 

 the middle latitudes, the realm where the form appears to 

 have acquired its characters. The speed with which these 

 local variations are made is often great. Thus the horses of 

 Kentucky have, in about a century, acquired a certain stamp 

 of the soil which makes it possible, in most cases, for the 



Exercising the Thoroughbreds 



observer to identify an individual as from that State, though 

 he may find it in a field a thousand miles away. The defining 

 indications are not limited altogether to bodily form, but are 

 shown in what might seem trifling features of carriage and 

 behavior. The difference between the horses of Great 

 Britain and those of the United States seems to me, from 

 repeated observations, to be quite as great as that separating 

 the men of the two realms. I believe that if a lot of a 

 thousand, taken in equal parts from either land, were put 

 together, a person well accustomed to taking account of 



