PREFACE. 



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A DESIRE to promote the study of a health- 

 ful and graceful exercise, and a wish to 

 advance the interests of a friendless stranger, 

 are the motives that have induced me to pre- 

 sent to the public the Manual of the Art of 

 Equitation, by 31. Lebeaud, The coincidence 

 of utility and benevolence, has rendered the 

 task of translation interesting and grateful. 

 The want of such a manual is very sensibly 

 felt by all who are desirous of uniting a 

 knowledge of the principles to the practice of 

 the art. 



However attentive and intelligent an in- 

 structor may be, many things will remain 

 without explanation, and many be performed 

 without knowing the principles on which they 

 are done. To supply this deficiency tlie fol- 

 lowing work is offered. It is selected from 



