LECTURES ON HORSES. 485 
point of the shoulder”) the articulation of the humerus with the 
scapula, precisely upon the point of the toe. 
The SECOND falls from the upper part of the fore-arm or elbow 
to the heel of the fore foot, dividing in its course, longitudinally, 
the fore-arm, knee, and cannon. 
St. Bel’s third perpendicular is but a part of his second ; and his 
fourth drops equidistant between the fore limbs. We, therefore, 
shall pass to 
The fifth, which falling from the point of the stifle, according 
to the regular scale, should come in contact with the toe of the 
hind foot, but in Eclipse struck the ground half-a- head's length 
(eleven inches) in front of the hoof. 
The sixth descends from the point of the hock, along the 
tendon of the hind leg, and, touching the heel of the fetlock, falls to 
the ground behind the heel of the hoof. 
The SEVENTH falls equidistant between the hind legs. 
The eighth and ninth have reference to the body. One 
falls from the withers to the ground, touching the point of the elbow 
in its descent; the other from the middle of the back, through the 
body, to the central point of the quadrilateral figure described’ by 
the position of the four legs. 
All these perpendiculars proved true in Eclipse; one alone 
differed from those of the approved scale, and this difference, we 
shall find, was attended with advantage : indeed, Eclipse’s forma- 
tion in this respect would appear to have corrected a grand error 
in the geometrical figure of the French schools. 
In describing the differences between the proportions of Eclipse 
and those of the table of the French schools (which he reckoned 
to be five, viz. extraordinary height, both of head and body'; extra- 
ordinary length of neck ; the perpendicular from the stifle ; and 
the greater length of arm) St. Bel omitted a very important differ- 
ence, deducible from his own statements, which is, extraordinary 
length of limbs compared with the depth of body. St. Bel’s ad- 
measurements, as far as they go, have no doubt enabled us to 
make out what sort of a horse Eclipse was ; but his mensuration 
might, in such a case as this, with much advantage have been 
carried a great deal farther — might, for example, in the instance of 
the limbs, included the circumferences of different parts, and, in 
many other parts, their relative span or thicknesses — also due allow- 
ances ought to have been made for the age and condition of his 
subject. He tells us, he “ took the proportions of Eclipse while 
living, and satisfied his curiosity after his death upon his skeleton, 
by dissecting his body himself.” 
It may not be out of place, or unacceptable, to conclude this ac- 
count of our prodigy of horse-flesh with the remarks that Eclipse 
