CHAP. I.] INSIDE TREAD. — DEFORMED LIMBS. 37 



is, that the various modes of wrong tread are brought 

 on, remains to be examined into hereafter. Mean- 

 time, it may not be amiss to observe, that the right 

 mode and make may be discovered by noticing the 

 proportions of those horses, that, by the acknow- 

 ledged just symmetry of their bones, the agreement 

 in size of one limb with another, and the faultless 

 manner in which these are attached to the body, 

 go tolerably free from any such diseases, until old 

 age, accident, or the misapplication of their powers, 

 bring on disease. 



6. There are, then, three kinds of mal-formation, 

 or bad shape, attendant on the limbs of horses, 

 which I consider original faults ; those others to 

 which they give rise being but secondary ones. 

 1st. That wherein the leg is ill-formed in itself. 

 2d. When it is badly joined to the body. od. 

 When the fore legs disagree with the hind ones 

 in length or quantity. Each, being attended by 

 its respective defect in going, as to safety, speed, 

 or strength, and liable to incur one or other of the 

 ills enumerated, as appearing on the legs and 

 feet — is worthy of the reader's separate considera- 

 tion ; although it frequently happens,, that an in- 

 dividual horse is afflicted with all three faults at 

 the same time, the two first being found together, 

 subsequently producing the other also. But I have 

 generally noticed, that one of those faults some- 

 times accomodates itself to the other, amending- 

 it considerably ; as, when a limb that may be too 

 long is set higher up on the body than is esteemed 



