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hope effedlually to immortalize my own 

 name, by calling it Angle's firfi Hippopiptic * 



curve. 



The firft equeftrian problem that I ever 

 fet myfelf to difcover was this -, ** When by 

 pulling the reins you prevent a horfe from 

 falling, where is the fulcrum or prop ? — and 

 how is the horfe 's centre of gravity prevent- 

 ed from being thrown beyond the bafe of his 

 legs ?" I will not trouble you now with 

 the particulars of this difficult in ve {ligation ; 

 but fhall only fay, that it turned out great- 

 ly to the honour of demipique faddles ; 

 which, accordingly, in the Mathematical 

 Elements of Riding, that I mean hereafter 

 to publifh, I Ihall recommend very ftrongly 

 in a Corollary. 



A learned 



* Hippopiptic cxprefTes the mode of the curve's generation in 

 falling from a horfe : — from Hippos^ a horfe, and pipto^ to fall. 

 I call itjirjif becaufe I hope by the fame means to difcover more 

 hereafter. 



