SPEED AND STRENGTH. 



couple of hundred yards he can travel with the velocity of 

 an express train Also, there is the greyhound, with whose 

 speed we are all familiar. In comparison with these fleet 

 of foot animals, let us note the "make and shape" of the 

 buffalo (...PI. 3) and rhinoceros (... PI. 4), both of which 

 are endowed wrth vast muscular power. And as the opposite 

 of the "long-taded dog," let us take the bulldog or dachs- 

 nund On examining these animals we shall observe that 

 the hmbs (especially the hind ones, from which is derived 

 the greater part of the forward propulsion) of the gallopers 

 are much longer in proportion to the animal's height than 

 those of the representatives of strength. We see this fact 

 best illustrated when we compare individuals of the same 

 speces, hke the greyhound and bulldog. We also obtain 

 good examples among horned cattle, in the Indian trotting 

 bullock (... PI. 5), and the Indian heavy draught bull (i 

 PI. 6), whose sex ,s mdicated by the large size of his hump 



the"; ''?* t "^'"^ '™'^ '^ "^" ^^°-" ■•" the hare and fn 

 the lynx (... PI. x;), both of which are animals of great 

 speed._ As it is not the custom to breed men with reference 

 to their physical development, we do not find the difference 

 m question so well marked in them as in the lower animals 

 >;et, tor all that, we may note among "sprinters" and 

 wrestlers the working of this principle. ! may explain that 

 Je muscles of the limbs of the horse, ox, buffalo and antelope 

 do not, practically, extend below the knees and hocks (beina 



cat tribe, they go down to the foot 



those of high speed, we may conclude that the former are 

 distinguished by a long body and short legs ; and the latte' 



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