"Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c. . ow, as the Gnu, although possessedof horns and cloven hoofs, has a body resembling thatof the horse. Some of the ancient writers describe aspecies of horse with a mane extending the whole lengthof the animal, from head to tail. Some authors havedepicted horses with a unicorn-like horn in their forehead?and among the collection made by Aldrovandus, is ahorse with a human head and face (Centaur); and anotherwith
"Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c. . ow, as the Gnu, although possessedof horns and cloven hoofs, has a body resembling thatof the horse. Some of the ancient writers describe aspecies of horse with a mane extending the whole lengthof the animal, from head to tail. Some authors havedepicted horses with a unicorn-like horn in their forehead?and among the collection made by Aldrovandus, is ahorse with a human head and face (Centaur); and anotherwith hands instead of fore feet, which he tells us belonged to Julius Caesar, and would suffer no one else tomount him. Cains Julius Ccesar iitebatur equo insigni ?a-i .1. r ?*?- pedibus peope humanis et in modum digitormn tingulis fissisl&c.—as a writer in Knights Cyclopaedia very justlyobserves—this may have only been some malformation ofthe hoof, like that in the case of the animal exhibited inWalsall; but whether it was only a mere malformationor not, the painter has represented the animal with twohuman hands, having on each, four fingers and a thumb,and also 4 ?:>K- \ t I •M! .9. WILD HORSES. He looked as though the speed of thoughtWere in his Hmbs; but he was wild,Wild as the deer, and untaught,With spur and bridle flowing tail, and flying mane,Wide nostrils—never stretched by pain,Mouth bloodless to the bit or rein;And feet that iron never shod,And flanks unscarred by spur or rod ;A thousand horse, the wild, the waves that follow oer the sea. It is very doubtful whether at the present day anytruly descendants of an original wild stock of horsesexist. Dr. Gray observes that the wild horse, as de-picted by Gmelin, very much resembles the ponies leftat liberty on the commons of Cornwall, and on themountains of Scotland, and are rather domestic animalswhich have become deteriorated. The wild horses ofAmerica, although they retain their
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