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There still remains the question regarding the equality 

 of the height and of the length of the body of the horse. 



This equality, after the proportions previously indicated, 

 would seem bound to appear in all the cases observed. Now, 

 if we measure the examples reproduced in Figs. 112, 113, 

 and 114, we shall see that sometimes the two dimensions 

 are unequal, the height being greater than the length, or 

 inversely. 



It is the same, if we examine a certain number of speci- 



FiG. 114. — Horse of which the Length contains more than Two 

 AND A Half Times that of the Head, and of which this 

 Dimension (A, B) is Inferior to the Height. 



mens ; we are able to determine that the proportion chosen 

 in preference by authors is not exactly that which is oftenest 

 met with. It will, very probably, be objected that it is so 

 iof the most beautiful types, and that the indifferent ones 

 af e generally the more numerous. The essential thing would 

 be to know, above all, if the type of two heads and a half of 

 length and of height is really the only beautiful one. How- 

 ever that may be, of the fifty African horses measured by 

 M. Duhousset, only fourteen possessed the equality indi- 

 cated ; twenty-six were less long than high, and ten more 

 long than high.* 



* E. Duhousset, ' The Horse,' Paris, 1881. 



