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ing in the females. Between the canines and the 

 first cheek-tooth is a void space, which corresponds 

 with the angle of the lips where the bit is placed, 

 and by means of which alone man is enabled to 

 overcome this vigorous quadruped. Their stomach 

 is simple and moderate, but their intestines are very 

 long, and the caecum enormous. The mammae are 

 between the thighs. 



The Horse, (Equus Caballus, Lin.) Buff. IV. i. 



This noble companion of man in the chase, in 

 war, in the works of agriculture, the arts, and 

 of commerce, is the most important and the 

 best treated of all the animals which are sub- 

 mitted to us. It appears that the Horse exists 

 in a wild state only in those places where 

 horses, formerly domesticated, have been left in 

 freedom, as in Tartary and America. In such 

 places they live in troops, conducted and de- 

 fended each by an old male. The young males, 

 driven away as soon as they are adult, follow 

 these troops at a distance until they are fit for 

 the mares ; the domesticated foal sucks six 

 or seven months ; the sexes are separated at 

 two years. They are broken in at three years 

 old, but they should not be ridden till they are 

 four years old, when also they can propagate 

 without injury. The Mare is gravid eleven 

 months. The age of the Horse is known espe- 

 cially by the incisive teeth. The milk-teeth 



