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foldiers pufhed their lances ; and by this means ac- 

 quired fcrength in their limbs, and a facility of ufing 

 their weapons. This Game ftill exifts, and preferves its 

 name, being called ^I'mtaine, and is pradlifed, with 

 improvements and additions, in difTerent academies, 

 where fuch exercifes are taught, but which now are 

 unavailing in war, and can only conduce to form the 

 body to (Irength and activity ; the introduclion of fire- 

 arms in other refpecfts having rendered them ufelefs. 

 From thefe two fports are derived the famous exercifes 

 of running at Heads with lances, of picking them from 

 the ground with points of fwords, while the horfe is 

 in full fpeed, of throwing darts at them, of taking 

 off a ring fufpended in the air with the point of a 

 lance, all performed on horfeback, according to cer- 

 tain rules and principles, cllablifhed in modern aca- 

 demies, which all tend to make the fuccefs of the 

 adventurers more meritorious, as more difficult. 



Thefe, and other branches of the equeflrian art, 

 fuch as combats of one horfeman againft another, or 

 of feveral againfl an equal number, the riding a cer- 

 tain number of horfes in different divifions, figures 

 and evolutions, and thereby compofmg a Dance^ called 

 Iry the Italians La Fola, and by the French La Foule, as 

 well as the art of Faulting, are all diredly defcended 

 from the fports and exercifes of the Ancients, and have 

 been exhibited for many centuries with much fplen- 

 dDur and folemniry, under the names of Jujis, Ca- 



roiifels, ., 



