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THE EXTERIOR OF THE HORSE. 



regarded as having the same inclination, the same parallelism, and, 

 finally, forming, two by two, angles of 90 degrees. 



Such, in substance, is Morris's theory, by the aid of which he was 

 led to construct the horse whose type he gives at the head of his treatise, 



and which we consider it our duty to reproduce with the most scrupu- 

 lous accuracy (Fig. 131). It is sufficient for us to look at this drawing 

 to see that the author himself duly appreciated the maxim of Des- 

 cartes, which he recommends to the attention of his readers : " He who 



