88 SEATS AND SADDLES. 



cept that people will persist in either sitting directly on 

 the horse's withers, or when they sit on the loins, 

 transferring their weight to the shoulder, through the 

 medium of stirrups hung far forward, every time they 

 rise in the saddle when trotting. Corns and broken 

 knees are totally unknown in the Austrian cavalry, 

 where the shoe is given a solid bearing on the angle of 

 the wall of the hoof at the heel. 



