THE SHOULDER. 



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A Table, 



Shewing the relative Growths 155 Horses have made at 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 

 and 7 Years of Age. 



We must not think of quitting this subject until we have pro- 

 fitted by the brilliant lights that have been incidentally cast upon 

 it by one of the greatest physiologists and discoverers of the age 

 in which we live, — the late Sir Charles Bell. Every one is ac- 

 quainted with those interesting and beautiful productions, " The 

 Bridgewater Treatises," among which, as one link in the series, 

 stands the work from Avhich we are about to make extracts that 

 will confer pre-eminent richness upon our present field of in- 

 vestigation. 



After observing that, in the horse and other quadrupeds, with 

 few exceptions, the connexion between the extremity and the 



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