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been made and it is ready to be lifted from its position. The fore 

 foot on the same side of the body is as near as may be in the centre 

 of space 9, the foot fourteen inches above the ground. There is a 

 slight curve at the pastern, throwing the foot a little back, though 

 the cannon is in a vertical line, and the knee is bent so that the ai-m 

 is, as nearly as may be, in a horizontal position. The other fore foot, 

 the near one, which left the ground only a short time before the 

 hind, is in space 7, and is elevated ten inches. It is thi-own back 

 some two feet behind the elbow, and it is inside of the left hind leg, 

 in juxtaposition to the ankle of the hind leg. This is the point 

 when " scalping " of the coronet, or wounding of the ankle, shin, or 

 hock occurs, and when the inquiry progresses further, this will be 

 more clearly shown. The left hind foot is within six inches of the 

 ground surface, and is about four feet in advance of the other hind 

 foot. In the next picture all feet are 



OFF THE GROUND. 



Owing probably to the wire which was to open the slide of the 

 camera, No. 4, being placed too far from No. 3, the representation 

 covers a little more space than twenty-one inches. In all of the 

 others the back of the driver and the eye of the horse are bisected by 

 the lines between the spaces; in tliis they are a few inches in advance 

 of the line. 



The right hind foot, which was in the act of leaving the gi-ound, 

 twenty-four inches back, is now raised until it is fully sixteen inclies 

 up, and it is above the pasterft some four inches. The p;\stern is so 

 much bent that the sole of the foot is turned up, but from the pas- 



