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16£ hands — in height ; and that he stood higher by an inch behind 
than before ; and that this great height was still exceeded by the 
length of his body, that being three inches more, or sixty-nine inches. 
It is but rarely that we behold a horse of these dimensions, even 
among the big Derby colts of the present day ; and when we come 
to add fair proportion and power and energy to this gigantic frame, 
we shall not feel so much surprise at his wonderful exploits. What 
appears most remarkable, however, in the “ proportions” of this 
famous horse, is the smallness or shortness of his head , it measuring, 
according to calculations readily deducible from Sainbel’s mensura- 
tion, but twenty-two inches ; a circumstance, seemingly, that gave 
rise to his subdivision of it into twenty-two parts, each part then 
being equivalent to one inch. Hence Eclipse’s height being sixty- 
six inches, was equal to three heads’ length, exceeding that of the scale 
or regular-proportioned horse by half-a-head ; and the same excess, 
and three inches added to it, occurs in his length : circumstances 
mostly, I repeat, attributable to the smallness of his head. Eclipse, 
therefore, was a tall horse and a long horse, a horse higher behind 
than before, and withal, a horse possessing a very small head. I 
shall next month pursue this interesting subject: to me our pride 
of horse-flesh appears to have lain too long dormant, buried under 
the neglected geometrical details of our father-Professor. 
TWO ABSCESSES IN THE MESENTERY COMMU- 
NICATING WITH THE INTESTINES, AND AN 
ABSCESS IN THE OMENTUM. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, F.aS'. Whitchurch, Salop. 
2 2d June, 1843. — An aged gig mare, the property of J. W. 
Hopkin, Esq., surgeon, at Malpas, has been subject, during the 
last five or six months, to repeated attacks of apparent spasm of 
the bowels while running out at grass. She was several miles 
from the owner’s residence, and he did not know of her being 
subject to these attacks until she was brought up home ; conse- 
quently she was left to her fate without any remedial means 
being used. 
She has now been up nearly a fortnight, and has had these 
attacks almost continually, and every thing given to her affording 
but little relief, she was sent over this day to me. 
Symptoms . — She has the appearance of some chronic disease 
lingering about her, as she is very thin and hidebound ; has the 
