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sooner, and more generally, occupy our proper rank in society: but 
this we shall never do while we are sent into practice unprepared 
and untaught; and by this vile system of charging for balls, and 
drenches, and dressings, are voluntarily and obstinately de¬ 
grading ourselves. 
“ Culpa sua damnum sentiens, non intelligitur damnum pati. ,; 
!3xtract0 from fountain ^foreign anti dornmir. 
Library of Useful Knowledge.—The Farmer's Series . 
The Horse. 
We give an extract or two from No. IV of this work, just pub¬ 
lished. They may not be uninteresting to our readers. The au¬ 
thor had spoken of the connexions of the bones of the nose. He 
thus proceeds. 
“The nasal bones are rounded, and arched above, because 
they are exposed to occasional violence and injury, which the 
arch form will enable them best to resist; and at the base of the 
arch, where the main strength should be, they are over-lapped 
by the upper jaw bone, as we have described the temporal bone 
overlapping the base of the parietal. These bones form a prin¬ 
cipal part of the face; and the length or shortness, and the 
character of the face, depend upon them. They mainly consti¬ 
tute the striking difference between the head of the cart and 
blood horse. 
“ In some horses, this arch is more than usually developed, 
and there is, beside, a prominence or increased archedness about 
half-way down the nasal bones. These horses are said to have 
Roman noses, because this arch of the nose distinguishes the 
profile of some of the most celebrated of the ancient Romans. 
We cannot say that the breed of horses in which the Roman nose 
usually occurs, possesses superior sagacity or courage ; they are 
generally easy, good-tempered horses, hearty feeders, and 
hardy constitutioned, but possessing little blood. Many thorough¬ 
bred horses have a peculiarity the reverse of the Roman nose. 
There is a depression or hollow about the middle of the nasal 
bones. Although this be a characteristic of breeding, it often 
accompanies an uncontrolable and vicious temper.” 
