ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. I3 



A learned Student in Mathematics has long 

 published his ability and deiire to conftrudt 

 breeches upon geometrical principles *. 



Mr. Nunn is certainly ingenious, and his 

 breeches, a few falient angles excepted, ad- 

 mirable ; but the artift who fhould make 

 bridles, faddles, and other equeilrian para- 

 phernalia, by the rules of pure mathematics, 

 would render a much more praife-worthy 

 fervice to the public. For if the flimfy lea- 

 ther breeches require geometrical cutting, 

 how much more neceflary muft it be to the 

 tough hide which forms the bridle ? and to 

 what purpofe will the geometry in the breeches 

 operate, if the faddle, by which they are to 



be 



* Mr. Nunn's advertifement is as follows : 



« BREECHES-MAKING IMPROVED BY GEOMETRY." 



*' Thomas Nunn, Breeches-maker, No. 29, Wigmore-ftreet, 

 Cavendifh-fquare, has invented a fyftem on a mathematical 

 principle, by which difficuhies are folved, and errors correfted : 

 its ufefulnels for eafe and neatnefs in fitting, is incomparable, 

 and is the only perfed rule for that work ever difcovered. Se- 

 veral hundreds (noblemen, gentlemen, and others) who have 

 had proof of its utility, allow it to excel all they ever made 

 trial of.'* 



