. "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. Horses; Horsemanship. OR, The Turn Out. 139 hands instead of fore-feet, which he tells us belonged to Julius Caesar, and would suffer no one else to mount him. " Cains Julius Ccesar utehatur equo insigni pedibus peope humanis et in niodum difjitorum unguJis fosis/' 8fC.—as a writer in Knight's C)''clopccdia very justly observes—this may have only been some malformation of the hoof,
. "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. Horses; Horsemanship. OR, The Turn Out. 139 hands instead of fore-feet, which he tells us belonged to Julius Caesar, and would suffer no one else to mount him. " Cains Julius Ccesar utehatur equo insigni pedibus peope humanis et in niodum difjitorum unguJis fosis/' 8fC.—as a writer in Knight's C)''clopccdia very justly observes—this may have only been some malformation of the hoof, like that in the case of the animal exhibited in Walsall; but whether it was merely a malformation or not, the painter has represented the animal with two human hands, having on each four fingers and a thumb, and also ^^^pi^ '^StN I 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gough, E. W. London : Henry Thacker & Co.
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