INTRODUCTION. 



The science of Equitation has for many years 

 been allowed, by the testimony and strong recom- 

 mendation of the most eminent of the faculty, to be an 

 accomplishment highly conducive and most beneficial 

 to health ; assisting the blood in its proper circu- 

 lation through the frame, on which depends wholly 

 good spirits, and freedom from bilious, hypochon- 

 driacal, and nervous affections. 



Parents should not neglect to have imparted to 

 their children an art so calculated for the develop- 

 ment of grace and beauty in maturity, and, above 

 all other considerations, one that so eminently guards 

 against the many diseases of this varying climate ; 

 diseases which are, in fact, almost, if we may use 

 the term, "indigenous'' to the spring and summer 

 of life. 



Physicians, of the past and present time, whose 

 mere names should be sufficient to procure every 

 patronage, are in favour of the acquirement of this 

 most essential and elegant science. The skill neces- 

 sary to become a perfect rider, can only be obtained 

 through the tuition of a first-rate master ; and, as 



