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be fupported, and whofe fuperiicles they are 

 to touch in as many points as poffible, be 

 formed ungeometrically ? But I forbear to 

 expatiate on a matter as plain as an axiom of 

 Euclid ; trufting, that whoever can perceive 

 the utility of geometrical breeches, will readi- 

 ly agree, a Jbrtion, to the abfolute neceffity 

 of geometrical faddles and bridles. 



Purfuing my principles, I have demon- 

 ftrated what is the right line to be drawn 

 by the mathematical rider in every difficult 

 iituation. In afcending a horfe's back, at 

 what angle to extend the moveable leg, 

 while the fixed one is refted in the ftirrup : 

 in leaping, how to regulate the ofcillation, 

 or balancing of the body, by attending care- 

 fully to that fundamental point which is 

 your centre of motion : in ftarting, how to 

 difpofe of the fuperfluous momentum, and 

 thereby to preferve in full force the attracStion 

 of cohelion between rump and faddle : in 

 rearing, at what angle, formed by the horfe's 

 back with the plane of the horizon, it is 

 moft advifable to Hide down over his tail ; 



which. 



