PROPORTIONS 269 



19. The interval between the eyes from one great angle 

 to the other (P) equals : 



The width of the hind -leg, viewed laterally, from the 

 cleft of the buttocks to the inferior part of the tuberosity 

 of the tibia. 



20. One-half of this interval between the eyes (^ P) 

 gives : 



The width of the posterior canon-hone, viewed laterally. 



The width of the fetlock of the fore-limb, from its anterior 

 summit to the root of the spur. 



Finally, the difference of the height of the crupper with 

 respect to the summit of the withers. 



It is certain that the multiplicity of these proportions, 

 and above all the exaggeration of details into which 

 Bourgelat fell in indicating certain of the measures which 

 constitute the bases of some of them, may repel the 

 reader. 



For this cause we desire to add to the preceding, and 

 also because the question which we are treating would be 

 incomplete without it, the results obtained and published 

 by other more modern authors, and in particular by Colonel 

 Duhousset.* 



This author, one of whose constant occupations is 

 the measurement of the different regions of the horse, 

 has the incontestable merit of having drawn attention 

 to this question, and of having strained all his energies 

 in the propagation of the knowledge which until then was 

 little diffused. Among the proportions which he recom- 

 mends, there are some which are the result of his own 

 observations ; whilst others, which he has verified and 

 adopted, are the result of a judicious selection of those 

 given by Bourgelat, which we have just reproduced in the 

 preceding pages. 



We join thereto also certain indications furnished by 

 MM. A. Goubeaux and G. Barrier,*!- distinguishing these 

 latter by the initials (G. and B.) of their authors (Fig. 107). t 



* E. Duhousset, ' Le Cheval,' Paris, 1881. 



t Armand Goubeaax and Gustave Barrier, ' De I'exterieure du Cheval,' 

 Paris, 1882. 



