INTRODUCTION. 



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Although entirely relinquished, at present, perhaps 

 in this country, the mode of female equestrianism under 

 notice continues to prevail in various other localities. 

 In the following sketch, taken from Charles Audry's 

 magnificent "Ecole d' Equitation," a Persian lady 

 is delineated as just about to start on a journey, in 



the saddle ; and, in the next, which is engraved from 

 an original drawing, "done from the life," a lady and 

 gentleman of Lima are represented on horseback. " I 

 have endeavoured," the artist says, in manuscript, on 

 the reverse of his sketch, " to depict the horses 

 ' pacing ; ' as they are almost universally taught to 

 do, in Peru : that is, to move both the legs, of one 

 side, forward together. It resembles an English 



