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ground, the pasterns so much bent that the fetlock touclies : the other 

 hind foot on the twelve-inch line, the fore feet more extended. 

 Between the two illustrations, five and six, the near hind foot has 

 come to the ground, and in six both hind feet touch. There is a 

 space of thirty-eight inches between these feet, the right fore leg is 

 extended to its extreme capacity, the heel touching the twelve-inch 

 line, and the toe elevated so that the sole forms an angle with the 

 horizontal line of forty-five degrees. The left fore leg is not so much 

 bent at the knee as in the preceding two pictures, and the croup is 

 three inches below the horizontal line which marks the height, some 

 fifteen hands and an inch. Number seven shows the left hind foot 

 and right fore foot on the ground, enclosing ninety inches of space 

 between them, the other feet elevated and about one hundred and 

 thirty-five inches apart. There is rather more sinkijig of the body 

 below the line than in the preceding, with the head very nearly in 

 the same position. 



Figure number eight comes nearer the fancy of the artist tlian 

 either of the others, and yet it is so difierent that it is still more 

 conclusive testimony of the absurdity of the portraiture of the gi-eat 

 limners of the horse. The right fore foot is on the gi-oimd, the leg 

 only a trifle ofi" the perpendicular, that little inclination being back- 

 ward from the foot. The other three are extended, the right fore 

 foot projecting in fi-ont of the nose, and elevated fifteen inches, the 

 toe turned up. The left hind foot has just left its hold, and is four 

 inches above where it rested. The right is raised sixteen inches, and 

 at the very furthest exti-emity of its reach. Between the toes of 

 those feet which are the furthest stretched apart are five and one- 

 third spaces, equal to one hundred and forty-four inches ; but this is 

 aggravated, owing to the angle from the camera spreading and cover- 

 ing too much space on the screen. Before this was seen, an error 

 arose in thinking that the hind foot had a retrograde action, and in 

 the analysis of the stride on the back of the card are loops, showing 

 this " back-action " movement. From the first Governor Stanford 

 insisted that it could not be so, as all the movements of progression 

 were forward, and closer reasoning established the truth of the posi- 

 tion. In the Pictorial Gallery of English Eace-Horses ai-e pictures 



