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COD empto llld. El pro iino cart-sadel, iino collro cum imo pari trac- 

 tiium emptis XlVcl. cjc. This reminds me of the facetious Latin of Swift, 

 andof some juvenile correspondence - in days long past — " Magister 

 GOMTUR ad Clai'am, si vis ambiilore mecum, veni derecliter." To return 

 to the trammels, they were made of yarn or strong list, and with those 

 the Horse's fore-legs were tied together, and he being forced forward in 

 that state, acquired in time that short wriggling and oblique mode of 

 progression called ambling. Trammels were also made of iron like fetters; 

 these, in course, yvexe fabricated hyihe ferrarii or soleari, the ferrers, or 

 shoers with iron, who must, of fashionable necessity, be described in 

 Latin. They also shod the hinder feet, with long and sometimes sharp 

 points, projecting from the toe, which co-operated, in the same intent, 

 with the trammels upon the fore-legs. What ridiculous pains, to harrass 

 and torture, and totally spoil the natural and excellent paces of the 

 •animal ! Polydore Virgil remarks, that the English did not affect the 

 trot, but excelled in the softer pace of the amble. For the credit of 

 modern common sense, the English of the present day, beyond all other 

 nations, are attached to the trot, and have lost even the remembrance 

 of the amble, for which they have wisely substituted that natural 

 and pleasant pace, the canter. 



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