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takable evidences of confidence in the superiority 

 of my rapidly spreading system for rightly 

 educating the horse. 



Cheered by my continued success, I pursued 

 my journey to the city of Ithaca, where I built 

 an academy much larger than any I had previ- 

 ously erected. Here I remained about a week, 

 and had the pleasure of forming a class of one 

 hundred persons. 



Finding it somewhat inconvenient to build 

 academies in many places, I now purchased 

 canvas for a movable tent, which I had con- 

 structed, and this I carried from place to place, 

 erecting academies only where my tent was 

 insufficient to accommodate the audiences. On 

 the fourth of July I pitched my tent at the city 

 of Elmira, and soon had the satisfaction of 

 enrolling the names of one hundred and fifty 

 persons, who eagerly sought information, and 

 expressed the greatest gratification with the 

 instruction they had received. 



After this, ,1 continued my tour, exhibiting 

 and lecturing in many towns and villages during 



