PLATE IV. 



Figure 1. — Is a fore-leg formed for speed, and, perhaps, action, 

 but not calculated for permanency. The plate of the knee being 

 much lower than it ought to be, the horse must be considered as a 

 dangerous road animal. 



Figure 2. — Is formed to do much work, and last long at it. 



Figure 3. — Is good in substance, but rather round, and too 

 straight. 



Figure 4. — Is a pair of legs well formed for strength and action. 



Figure 5. — Displays the front view of legs badly formed, being 

 what the dealers call made as a dancing-master ought to be ; but still 

 if the toe, or point of the hoof, deviate at all from the straight line, 

 it should be this way, as the contrary is extremely dangerous on the 

 road, and indeed anywhere else. 



Figure 6. — A leg made for neither speed nor power, being flat 

 and poor in the arm, round and weak in the leg, thin and long in the 

 pastern, and large in the hoof. 



Figure 7. — A pair of legs worse than Figure 5, being weak, 

 badly formed, and hardly good for anything. 



Figure 8. — This appearance is seldom formed by Nature, it is 

 occasioned by hard work, straining, &c. 



