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The arms fliould be bent at the elbows, and the 

 elbows fhould reft equally upon the hips; if the arms 

 were ftrait, the confequence would be, that the hands 

 would be too low, or at too great a diftance from the 

 body; and if the elbows were not kept fteady, they 

 would of confequence, give an uncertainty and 

 ficklenefs to the hand, fufficient to ruin it for ever. 



It is true that the Bridle-hand is that which abfo- 

 lutely ought to be fteady and immoveable; and we 

 might conclude from hence, that the left elbov/ only- 

 ought to reft upon the hip; but grace coniifts in the 

 exa6t proportion and fymmetry of all the parts of the 

 body, and to have the arm on one fide railed and ad- 

 vanced, and that of the other kept down and clofe 

 to the body would prefent but an aukward and dif- 

 agreeable appearance. 



It is this which determines the fituation of the 

 hand which holds the whip; the left hand being of 

 an equal heighth with the elbow; fo that the knuckle 

 of the little finger, and the tip of the elbow be both 

 in a line, this hand then being rounded neither too 

 much nor too little, but juft fo that the wrift may 

 direct all its motions, place your right hand, or the 

 whip hand, lower and more forward than the bridle 

 hand. It (liould be lower than the bridle hand be- 

 caufe if it was upon a level with it, it would reftrain 

 or obftrud: its motions ; and were it to be higher, as 

 it cannot take fo great a compafs as the bridle hand, 

 which muft always be kept over againft the horfeman's 

 body: it is abfolutely neceifary to keep the propor- 

 tion of the elbov/s, that it ihould be lower than the 

 other. 



The legs and feet make up the fecond diviilon 

 of what I call the moveable parts of the body: the 



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