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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Arabian Sports. til tliey fairly continue the dimensionsof the bony parts of the leg. Moreover,they have lengthened out, so as to givethe limb a great extension, and this,in turn, magnifies the stride which thecreature can take in running. The re-sult is that the horse can carry a greaterweight at a swifter speed than any otheranimal approaching it in size. The needs which led, in a slow ac-cumulative w^ay, to the invention of theadmirable contrivance of the horsesfoot, were doubtless founded on thenecessities of swift movement in fleeingfrom the great predacious animals. In-cidentally, however, as this developmenthas gone on, the peculiarities of the ex-tremity have proved highly advanta-geous in defence, and the creatures haveacquired certain peculiar ways of us-ing their feet effectively to this end.The solid character of the hoof, its con-siderable weight, and the great j^owerof the muscles of the hams, which arethe principal agents in propelling theanimal, make the hind feet capa

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