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ftience, fo particularly explained in 138 and 

 the following pages. 



Proper attention fiib'iild be paid to the form 

 -of the faddle and tnt flate of its ituffing, to 

 prevent even the poffibility of the tree coming 

 into injurious contacl with the wither-, or 

 the probability of warbles, by the indenta- 

 tion or fridlion of the girth buckles, in a 

 iong or fevere chace. The girth web for 

 hunting fhould be what is termed '* fpni g 

 web" in preference, for the advantage of its 

 additional elafticity ; the harlh, tight wove 

 web very frequently occafioning a laceration 

 of the integument, known by the name of 

 ^' ioivel galled.'^ If due refpedl was alfo 

 paid to the probable durability of the Jllrrup 

 leathers^ it might certainly render furerflu- 

 ous the paltry difplay of a new belt round 

 the body of a gentleman, indicating a 

 fafe refource for a hrohn leather ; a piece 

 of equeftrian oftentation never pradifed by 

 fportfmen of eftablifhed reputation, who are 

 univerfally known to be too fubftantially pro- 

 vided, in fo material a part of their equip- 

 ments, to ftand the mofl dilrant chance of 

 an accident, that would not only retard their 

 Y % progrefs, 



