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OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES.
PALO ALTO.
and trotting strains in the country, are
an important influence in improving
the breed of horses throughout the Pacific slope. It was here that the curious experiments were conducted, at the expense of Governor Stanford, for arriving at a better understanding of the speed of horses by photographing them in motion. The photographer, Muybridge, of San Francisco, succeeded, by an ingenious
arrangement of electrical wires, communicating with cameras, in securing twelve distinct views of a single stride.
The attitudes are of the most unexpected sort, and some of them even comic.
