THE the walk chime ovement, common ake to man table sequence of Tmt Al eas, and thre de dob of primitive system of locomotion employed. on Dy all the terrestrial vertebrates The le governing this method of progress is that the y fin taker precedente of ies naturally sperioe or mtronger limb ees prt interior hacral ib in. being Wied, thrust forwa ‘again placed on the ground. Tig the walk of a quadruped whose constant habit cree face atthe ground, and to employ four of ts feet forthe purpses of support and propulsion, the successive fociimpts, assuming the notation ommence withthe lading of O, will be— ‘being, ofcourse, fllowed by © in the m WALK When a horse is standing with the weight ofthe bod ‘equitably distbted over his four legs, and under th tondtions commences to wall the intory movereat will invariably be made with « hind-fot the lateral fore will next follow, and under the aormal conditions of teg Tar progress tis forefoot will be lied in advance of the spend hnd-oot being placed on the ground The rapidity with which any oe fot follows any oth foot, o the duration ofits contact with the ground var greatly, not ony with diferent species of animals, but also withthe same animal under apparently siniar condi erst MBEAN teclee contective ol ‘one half of ata speed ofa hase although esp keep for and 4, that doty is finposcd on the diagonals © A; 4 exhibits a faction ofan inch oa above the ground, but ie assists the labours of @ 2 in Tn6 6 has broken the alince; i this phase, and also in 7.8, and 9 the right laterals alone furssh the needed support. O comes 62 the aid ‘of thea laterals in. 10 just as is being advanced beyond A. The toe of @ni on the diagonals. The diagram in this tation of the consecutive elephant the laterals Chapter is as fathfl a cepresen Imes by that eid as It fs of those by startle, or 2 mouse Tour enumeration of movements, crawling as a method orn 17 strates a sons Melthy chil crawling on het hands and koees., Phase 4 wth diagonals alone; that ‘the aforded by the laterals i not soceesin, however, indisputable Te raking crea. a= we find io seratcs 18 and 1a ake culmination of the aving.of the arm must be and on the Mosticed the equivalent of placing its cei te wil be seen in tp seis 18 that along Seri tex i mot get Satu the ground, and be To eee (opelecaease i eomere tonearm ERE ott which erminates crm has commenced its ( ra d swing, while the tala ve ying: i sel oy gorstng te Tn the right hand on is backward et has commence sr Tamil, ding (stomed to sone habit of climbing has ial that apparently walle Alkough the ap the surface of the ground, are ae their ins as supports, thei co erent of eel anterior \ ad consequent in vitenee of the laterals hie movements, usta take Pr while a hore is walking, two moving fot are seen respectively in advance of, aod tothe reae of the Support “Iona, sr cloned by phason and 7, seis 1h tee ee anda) ahs le i sven; bt Ftc invarably flowed.” An omy walk The family of apes, when climbing, make prior ws of the stronger later, as may be seen in series 2, rep seating n baboon cling a pole The sloth would find its horizontally suspended walk aiicue wo execute with any relaxation of diagonal apport, The movements of animal ip their relation to design in Ar suruires far broader treatment than is possible in he present volume: its province in this Important mater wr therefore, be confined 40 2 m supercial review of the ‘Xpreston yiven to some ofthe movement, as illustrated amples of ancient resumed most The iafesible Jae of an. all-powerful priesthood, and the nuperttonsof a docile people, profited the F arts fom fing walkchores in 3 proceso tentury. Two heavly-laden p oe amedatly iv font of the other, are. sepesented he one toting the other walking; many other animal re intended to be repre ented walking. t interpretation’ to others an erroaeous ones the greater ‘umber, however, were sel cored "The bronze horses over the portals of St. Marks of a careful stody of natural at Venice, are fine exam action es “Of the great masters of the filtenth and two suet ing centuries, Donatello pronounced. ia their complete Movement, an de epetive seucs ot Pa, aol Venice afford ample proof Albert Durer Knight, Death and the Devil” Jeaves 2 singulae memento of hs eatelesspes in giving fleet to his avowed intention. umtan arttsof this century, in sion in whieh women a. processon in tak the central igure of one in a picture One of the greatest ie an chile are ek par hs Peture on a hose walking, ofthe othe, A clebrted animal patter of Frome, in sp we to be consilered worthy of place in yoked to 2 the national cllction, depict Nlough from the vigorous flrs of the driver to goad then in they see supposed to be making very slow a but one, only, of the animals is walking; the f fai the same ialization, are moving with a warety of eat Error in the interpretation of the quadrupedal walk fad become so predominant, that when Mecisonet hibited is picture of "1814." he was much ridiculed the artists and esis of Paris for having —as They ppossd—misrepreented thst action, Ia 188t the great paincr assembled his collegues of the Academy in his ftutio forthe purpose of convincing them, as he hinsel announced on the ooctsion, that “the ‘Sun had ‘no Fee eereeed if re Woe Goi, of Mcieonie’s inpre sion Tt is unnecessary #9 point out the phase selected Ty the antst forthe leading horse of his pies The "Roll Call” af to the astonishment f another wellknown example careful stady of the valle The walk of & quadruped being of a slow unexciting characte, = perhaps the reason why few references are companion Baers Fe te worm ly, in Hantetsit Milton, in Paradise Lost” vi, says And Swift, in a voyage to the Houyhohnms, report that Gulliver “saw a rae walking sfly inthe Author a a rl, indicate the pace by some inferential word. ‘That Wordaworth, in “The OW! 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