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INTRODUCTION. 

 Fig. 9. 



In the case of the Horse, we have considered the proper- 

 ties of external form, which we seek to communicate to an 

 animal whose physical powers we call forth for particular 

 ends. But other kinds of animals are destined for other 

 uses, and each has a conformation proper to itself, and in 

 them we endeavour to produce a class of characters depen- 

 dent upon their own nature and our purposes in rearing 

 them. Amongst these animals, the Ox, the Sheep, the Goat, 

 and the Hog, are domesticated chiefly for the purpose of pro- 

 ducing human food and clothing, but, above all, for the pro- 

 duction of food, either the flesh of the animals themselves, 

 or the milk of the females, produced for the nourishment of 

 their young. The characters indicative of the faculties best 

 suited for these different purposes differ in the different 

 species. But there are certain characters common to all of 

 them, which indicate in a greater or less degree their adap- 

 tation to the production of flesh or muscle, which, along with 

 the fatty secretion, constitutes food. 



The muscular tissue or flesh consists of a series of fine 

 tubular fibres or threads. These fibres united form fasciculi. 



