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TREATISE, 



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CHAP. I. 



ON THE SIZE, FIGURE, 8iC, OF CAVALRY Arfb 

 SADDLE HORSES. 



A HE horse now under consideration is that 

 of the middle size, viz. from fourteen and a 

 half to sixteen hands high : but in choosing 

 one nt for action and service, fifteen hands 

 or fifteen and a half is the size best adapted to 

 those purposes. Experience teaches us, that 

 the position now laid down is correct ; and 

 the observation is not applicable to horses only-j 

 but to the human race also. Men, from five 

 feet six to five feet ten inches in height, that 

 is, from the lowest to the highest of the 

 middle size> are most capable of bearing the 



