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sis deviates from the circle, it contains less.)

A deep chest, therefore, is not capacious, unless it is proportionally broad.

‘ The pelvis is the cavity formed by the junction of the haunch bones, with the bone of the rump._ It is essential that this cavity should be large in the female, that she may be enabled to bring forth her young with less difficulty. When this cavity is small, the life of the mother, and her off- spring, is endangered.—The size of the pelvis is chiefly indicated by the width of the hips, andthe breadthot the twist, which is the space between the thighs.—The breadth of the loins is always in proportion to that of the chest and pelvist.’

{ A form like the one here described, is generally approv- ed of, but not in every case for the same reasons. Mr. Marshall prefers‘ the carcase large, the chest deep, and the bosom broad, with the ribs standing out full from the spine; to give strength of frame and constitution, and to admit of the intestines being lodged within the ribs, thereby giving freedom to activity, and beauty to the general form. The

back, throughout, wide and level, as a receptacle of beef;

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