22 REFERENCES TO THE [BOOK I. 



well over ploughed land, and " live to the end of 

 the chase." Better reject such entirely — at least for 

 those purposes. Then again, horses of a certain 

 conformation of the bones, which we call shape or 

 built, never can perform any service properly, some 

 not tolerably : but we may study such an evil form 

 rather as a stumbling-block to be avoided, as also 

 every approach to such a form, lest we get dis- 

 appointed in our hopes ; and our present inves- 

 tigations tend to ascertain, as near as may be, the 

 simply objectionable shape as well as that which is 

 intolerable. 



Explanation and practical use of the Skeleton, 

 (or Plate 1) annexed as a "Frontispiece" to the 

 volume. 



The references that are made to the annexed plate, and which will 

 necessarily be found rather numerous in the chapter on conformation, 

 are so made by means of letters and figures, corresponding with simi- 

 lar letters and figures, upon the plate. The letters direct the reader's 

 eye across the picture, as the figures do from top to bottom: when he 

 is referred both by letter and figure, the place of intersection is the 

 point to which his attention ought to be directed. Thus [F. 3G.J 

 which by placing a flat ruler, or a piece of paper, across at " F," 

 and running the finger downwards from the figure " 36," would be 

 found to intersect each other at the insertion or commencement of the 



