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horfe, intended purely for purpofes of parade 

 and (hew ; the latter confined folely to the utile 

 of military ta&ics. 



The grand manege, confifts in teaching a 

 horfe, already perfectly broke in the common 

 way, certain artificial motions, the chief of 

 which are called, the Terra a terra, Demi-volt, 

 Corvet, Capriole, Croupa.de, Balotade, and the Step 

 and Leap ; which laft is a motion compounded 

 of three airs, namely, the Terra a Terra, Corvet, 

 and the Leap, by which the motion is finifhed. 

 When a horfe is perfect in all thefe, he is ftyled 

 a full-dreffed, or manjged horfe. 



The petit manege, is that drilling or training, 

 by which the army riding-mafters fit the horfe 

 for military fervice, in the ranks. The chief 

 objetls of it are to fet him upon his haunches, 

 and make him rein well, to give him a cadenced 

 pace, to teach him to rein back, or retreat, to 

 move fide-ways, to fland fire, and to leap. — 

 After thefe, a horfe will foon become capable of 

 all the neceffary military evolutions. The com- 

 mon bufinefs of our town riding-fchools, is to 

 teach grown gentlemen and ladies, and to fet 

 ill-broken horles upon their haunches. 



It is well known, that the grand manege has 

 been long out of fafhion in this country, and 

 farther, that it has for years pad been upon the 

 decline in every other. I look upon it as a re- 

 lict of that fuperftition in all things, which is 



the 



