. Johnson's new universal cyclopaedia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge. s the proportional size of (ho([uarter, forms an acute angle with the back-bone. Thefemur is short, stout, and included in the common integu-ment of the body. Tlie third trochanter, as usual in odd-toed ungulates, is well developed for tho insertion of thej/lutciia tuiixinuts muscle, and there is a characteristic fossaon the under surface of the bono above tho external con-dyle. The fibula is rudimentary. In the ankle, or hock,joint, the astragalus is deeply and obliquely grooved. Ithas a flat distal
. Johnson's new universal cyclopaedia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge. s the proportional size of (ho([uarter, forms an acute angle with the back-bone. Thefemur is short, stout, and included in the common integu-ment of the body. Tlie third trochanter, as usual in odd-toed ungulates, is well developed for tho insertion of thej/lutciia tuiixinuts muscle, and there is a characteristic fossaon the under surface of the bono above tho external con-dyle. The fibula is rudimentary. In the ankle, or hock,joint, the astragalus is deeply and obliquely grooved. Ithas a flat distal face, not borne upon any distinct neck, andarticulates almost entirely with the navicular, jiresentingonly a small face to tho cuboid. The internal and middlecuneiform bones are small and united, and support theinner splint-bone. The ectocunciform is largo, and withtho cuboid supports tho cannon-bono, or metatarsal of themiddle toe. Tho outer splint-bono is also supported bytho cuboid. Below this point tho structuro is tjiinilar tothat described in tho fore foot. It will thus be seen that. throughout the whole extent of bolh tho hind and forolimbs, except in the proximal portions of the carpus and 996 HORSE, FOSSIL. other, and are usually confounded under the name of Ara-bians. They are beautifully fnrraed. have fine legs and feetand small bony heads, and are usually small, not over 15hands high. The Flanders horse is a large, heavy, ooarse-Iced, slow horse, and the Tartar horse, which has beencarned into Russia and Hungary, is a small, bony, roughhorse, with a large head and great endurance. From vari-ous mixtures of these three types the modern horses arcdescended. The Barb blood spread into .Spain and ,and there met that of the other two races. The favoritehorses of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries seem to havebeen various crosses of the liarh and the is difficult to say what the original English horse was,but he is spoken of in the highest te
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