5>2 The Anatomy of a HORSE. Chap. VI. 



Procefs, long and round, which enters the larger Cavity 

 of the lower Head of the Shoulder-bone, and makes that 

 bunching out which is ufually called the Elbow ; this Pro- 

 ceis is fomewhat rough and uneven, partly that the Liga- 

 ments that encompafs the Joint might be the more ftrongly 

 knit to it, and j^artly for the Origination and Infertion of 

 the Mufcles which ferve to move thofe Parts ; for which 

 Caufe the Bone is rough at the Root of this Procefs, as 

 alfo the whole Circumference of the i>\nui^ into which it 

 is infer ted. 



Tne feuen [mail Between this and the Shank-bone, there 

 Bones feated he- ^''^ Ranges of little Bones, one above ano- 

 iiveen the Leg. ther, three in the firft Range, and four in 

 bone andShank, the fecond, all v/hich are very firmly join'd 

 together. 7'hefe differ one from another 

 in their Magnitude, Forms, and Situation, and are faid 

 to be firft cartilaginous, but that in Procefs of Time they 

 grow hard and bony. Their Subftance is fpongy, as are all 

 thofe which at firft are only cartilaginous ; of which Kind 

 are the Appendages of Bones, the Breaft'bone, and the like. 

 They are covered with a Ligament, which is partly mem- 

 branous, and partly cartilaginous, whereby they are fo com-' 

 padted, that without dividing the faid Ligament, it is hard 

 to diftinguifh them one from another, but at firft View they 

 may be all taken for one Bone. 



On their outer Surface they are fomev^^hat bunching, bu^ 

 on their Infide they are hollow. The firft that is placed oa 

 the Infide of the upper Rank, is fomewhat longifti, and 

 curved inwards, articulated with the Cubit-bone, and be- 

 low with the fecond of the lower Rank, touching both 

 the third and fourth of the fame Rank, and joined to the 

 fecond of its own Rank. The fecond has a Cavity on its 

 upper Part, which receives an Appendix of the Cubit- 

 bone. The third is joined above, by a plain Surface, to 

 the faid Cubit-bone, and with the fecond is joined under- 

 r.cath to the fourth Bone of the lower Rank. The fourth 

 Bone, or firft of the lower Rank, is round and fmooth^ and 

 is joined above to the Outlide of the lower Part of the firft 

 Bone, and below to the Shank-bone. The fifth has on. its 

 upper Part a large Sinui^ into which the firft Bone of the 

 upper Rank is articulated, and another below for Recep- 

 tion of Part of the Head of the Shank-bone. The fixth is 

 join'd with a plain Superficies on each fide, to the feventh,, 

 .^nd the foregoing above lo ;he fecond, ar^d below to the 



3hank- 



