The exterior of the horse . authors are not in accordupon this point. Most of them, however, maintain the first view, andwe coincide with them. There are exceptions ; some amblers leave the 1 H. Bouley, Nouveau dictionnaire de médecine, de chirurgie, et dhygiène vétérinaires,t. i. p. 402. 2 Lecoq, loc. cit., p. 416. 3 Marey, Machine animale, p. 148. THE GAITS IN PARTICULAR. 507 soil at the end of each of the lateral contacts. M. Lenoble(111 Teil has observed several examples. It is none the less, however, a fact that if the amble isin the vast majority of cases a marched gait, there must be,be
The exterior of the horse . authors are not in accordupon this point. Most of them, however, maintain the first view, andwe coincide with them. There are exceptions ; some amblers leave the 1 H. Bouley, Nouveau dictionnaire de médecine, de chirurgie, et dhygiène vétérinaires,t. i. p. 402. 2 Lecoq, loc. cit., p. 416. 3 Marey, Machine animale, p. 148. THE GAITS IN PARTICULAR. 507 soil at the end of each of the lateral contacts. M. Lenoble(111 Teil has observed several examples. It is none the less, however, a fact that if the amble isin the vast majority of cases a marched gait, there must be,between its two times, a very short period during whichthe four members remain on the ground. This occurswhen the body is shifted from one lateral biped to theother. At this instant, difficult to perceive, so short is it,the period of exchange of contact is manifested. Hence thetrue notation of this gait should be like that representedin Fig. 195, and not like that which M. Marey has given, asreproduced above (Fig. 194).. Fig. 195.—Notation of the marched amble. There are seen, in fact, short quadrupedal bases, 1, 3, 5 . ., interposed between the fundamental bases 2, 4, 6 . ., which were alone admitted hitherto, save by du Teil, who was the first to observe and formu-late the facts in question.^ We expect to register thesebases, as well as their duration, by the aid of our electricshoe (^chaussure exploratrice). The trail shows (Fig. 196) the imprints of the poste-rior feet always surpassing considerably those of the corre-sponding anterior, because the space embraced by each})osterior member is about one-third longer than the lengthof the lateral base. The length of the step of the ambling horse, accordingto M. Lenoble du Teil,^ would be equal to that of the ordi-nary walk, say m. for a horse of m. at thewithers. n 0 0 Ô ! (i) A Ù Ù 1 Lenoble du Teil, note communiciuce. Fig. 196.—Trail 2 Lenoble du Teil, Locomotion quadrupède étudiée sur le chev
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