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ing the anus, not only after the calls of nature 

 are performed, but it should, I again repeat, at 

 all times be invariably small, close, and tight, and 

 rather projecting than otherwise, as it is one of 

 the best or as good a constitutional point as any 

 I am acquainted with belonging to the horse. If 

 the fundament of a horse is as we have here 

 described, and he has a great width between 

 his hips, with a good broad surface of loins, as 

 also a spacious chest, his having those four con- 

 stitutional points will make up well for any ap- 

 parent deficiency of the want of carcass; and, 

 further, a horse thus formed, as regards the whole 

 of the points mentioned, is at all times a good 

 feeder, and with little trouble he is soon got 

 ready to run, as he is invariably a good winded 

 horse. 



I now come to speak of the body, or what is by 

 some people commonly called the '^middle-piece" 

 of the horse, and which is divided, internally, into 

 two cavities, by a muscular substance called the 

 *' diaphragm." The anterior cavity, the chest, con- 

 tains the lungs, the heart, &c. The posterior one, 

 the abdomen, contains the stomach, intestines, 

 liver, kidneys, &c. Now, with respect to the ex- 

 ternal form of the body, which contains and pro- 



