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*'* fill and genex^ous breed of horfes, noflep fliould have 

 " been taken on the other hand to q lUfy and inftruA 

 *^ the youth of the kingdom, ot bom fex in the 

 *' fu perior art of riding ; for ihe getting on the back 

 '* of an horfe to be conveyed from one place to an- 

 ^^ other without knowing what the animal is enabled 

 ^^ by nature, art and practice to pe'form, ib not 

 ^' Riding, the knowledge and utility of which 

 ** confilts in being able to diicern and dexterous 

 *^ to employ the means by which the horfe may be 

 " brought to execute what the rider requires of him 

 *^ with propriety, readinefs and fafery, and this 

 *^ knowledge in the rider and obedience in the horfe 

 *' fliould be fo intimately connected as to form one 

 ^^ perfect whole, this union being fo indifpenfabiy 

 *' necellliry that where it is not, there is no meaning, 

 ^' the rider and horie talk different languages, and 

 ** all is confufion, while many and fatal mifchiefs 

 *^ may enfue, the rider may be wedged m the tim* 

 *^ ber which he itrives to rend, and fall the vidim 

 ** of his own ignorance and railinefs/* 



I have now obferved fuch rufes which with pradicc 

 ^vill form as good and perfecl a Seat as the cuilom- 

 ary mode of riding will admit of. It remains now 

 with pradice and perfeverance to make perfed. 



WHEN RIDING ON" THE ROAD. 



WHEN a lady has taken fufficient pradice in the 

 menage or elfewhere, fo as to be able to fteer and 

 guide her horfe, and particularly canftop him firm and 

 well upon his haunches, and aho knows by pradice 

 4jow to unite herfelf to the horfe; provided he fhould 



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