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die- but amongst the superior, the Turkish saddle is in use, having 

 the posterior part, or cantle, so high, as to reach halt ^vay up the 

 rider's back; and flat stirrups which contain the whole toot, the toe ot 

 the stirrup iron being made sharp, to answer the mtent ot a spur. 

 They use no girths, vide excessively short, and are expert m all those 

 -feats of horsemanship which depend on the eqmlibre and which have 

 been already adverted to, in the practice of the ancients. 



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