THE 



HISTORY AND ART 



O F 



HORSEMANSHIP. 



THE horfe is an animal, which, from the 

 earliefl; ages of th«e world, has been deftined to 

 the pleafure and fervice of man ; the various 

 and noble qualities with which nature has endowed 

 him, fufficiently fpeaking the ends for which he was 

 defigned. Mankind were not long before they were ac- 

 quainted with them, and found the means of applying^ 

 them to the purpofes for which they were given. This 

 is apparent from the hiftories and traditions of almoft 

 all nations, even from times the mod remote ; info- 

 much that many nations, and tribes, or colonies of 

 people, who were entirely ignorant *, or had but 



* The wild Arabs, the Indians, feveral of the inhabitants of the 



interior parts of Afric, and even Britain, with fundry other inftances. 



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