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tion to the horfe when going down a fleep hill, and 

 endeavou: to put hiuUogether and upon his haunches, 

 and t/> perfor n this, fh'^ niul't feel his mouth lightly 

 and firmly with the bridle hand, at the fame time 

 making ufe of fome of the helps ufed to force him 

 to go toiward, fuch as clicking with your voice, a 

 gentle touch with the whip, or the heel, fo (he flays 

 him a little by the bridle hand at the fame time he is 

 forced forwards by the ether helps or aids and if 

 properly timed, by doing enough without over doing, 

 he will be put together, and of courfe kept on a 

 light proper adion which muil be in the real adion 

 of a trot, that is with his two corner legs in the air 

 at one time and two on the ground, by fuch means 

 the horfe will always be kept on a fure ballance and 

 never be in danger of falling, on the other hand if 

 the horfe is fufferd to go loole and unafiiled by the 

 bridle hand, and the other aids as before defcribed, 

 when going down a fteep hill he will moil commonly 

 go into that unnatural pace called the amble which is 

 movino; his fide le2:s together inilead of his corner 

 legs, this pace is very unfafe notwithftanding the 

 ancients ufed arts in breaking the horfe to the amble, 

 on account of its being fo much eafier than the trot, 

 but as it is a known maxim in phyiic that giving eafe 

 and performing a cure are tvyo different things, fo 

 here an eafy pace and a fafe one are as diametrically 

 oppofite, and that the amble is an unfafe pace is eafy 

 to be conceived by the horfe lofmg fo large a por- 

 tion of his ballance, to prove which only try thefe 

 fimple experiments. Take a wooden horfe let his 

 two corner legs be taken away and he will fland, 

 but take away his two fides leg and he falls, again. 

 one often fees at a farrier's fhop when a horfe is want- 

 ed to be (hod in hade, two fmiths can work at the 

 fame time, by taking each of them a corner leg, 



therefore 



