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riding, where the limbs are comparatively at rest, this exhausting 

 demand does not exist, and the mind at once partakes of increased 

 animation of the body. " Taking fresh air " in an open carriage 

 might at first sight appear equally beneficial ; but the sitting 

 posture as usually adopted is that of the contracted chest. To the 

 extent only of breathing purer air is it an advantage, but, where the 

 patient who would breathe purer air, and more of it, can bear the 

 slight additional exertion of riding on horse-back, the saddle is, 

 unqaestionably and emphatically, the seat of health and happiness : 

 and, to conclude these observations with an application of the 

 subject with which they have been chiefly occupied, I will add, 

 that the fatigues or dangers of the saddle will be more or less, 

 very great or utterly insignificant, just in proportion as the horse 

 and rider are in defective or in proper balance. 



Such are the principles which every competent and reasoning 

 judge of the subject will, I think subscribe to : and thus it is that 

 I advocate the handling and riding of England's Horses for 

 Peace and War. 



^^* Lessons for Ladies tvill appear in a future edition that hof 

 been called for. 



