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The Tartars have in all ages been famous, under 

 different names, for their love of horfcs, and fkill in 

 riding. 



It is a practice with them, fays an author, who 

 wrote the Hiflory of the Conqueft of China, by this 

 people (Palafox) to tye the reins of their bridles to 

 their girdles, and by the motion of their bodies alone 

 to govern and direct their horfes ; putting them into 

 different attitudes, and making them perform a va- 

 riety of evolutions. By this method they have their 

 hands at liberty to ufe their weapons, which they ma- 

 nage with moil remarkable flcill, and for which they 

 have been diflinguiflied in all ages beyond other na- 

 tions. Some will hold their bows in the fame hand in 

 which they hold their bridles, and at the fame time 

 draw the bow, and guide their horfe with great ad- 

 drefs, always riding with their ilirrups very fliort, in 

 order to colleifl themfelves better, and be able to rife 

 up as it were, when they arc going to attack an 

 enemy, and flrike a blow. 



The diilrid called Liit/e Tartary has a breed of fmall 

 horfes, wliich the inhabitants value fo much, as never 

 to permit them to pafs into the hands of flrangers. 

 Thefe horfes poffefs, in a fmall compafs, all the good 

 and bad qualities which are to be found in their 

 neighbours of Grand Tartary, and are an inflancc, 

 that cuftom and education will induce a fimilarity of 

 manners, and operate almoft as powerfully as nature 

 herfelf. 



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