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THE EXTERIOR OF THE HORSE. 



exostoses of the canon. The formation of a jarde is no exception to this prin- 

 ciple. 



FIG. 88. Jarde upon the dissected hock. 



It commences at the head of the external metatarsal bone (Fig. 90), that is 

 to say, at the inferior insertion of the powerful calcaneo-metatarsal ligament, b, 

 so much more exposed to traction on its component fibres as the efforts which 



