PREFACE. 



1 HE following pages contain a Treatise on the 

 Art of Riding on Horseback, for Ladies, which 

 originally appeared in the Publishers' well-known 

 Manual of elegant feminine Recreations, Exer- 

 cises, and Pursuits, The Young Lady's Book ; 

 with, however, various additions to tlie Text, 

 and a number of new Illustrations and 

 Embellishments. 



In offering the Treatise, thus improved and 

 adorned, in a separate form, the Pubhshers, it 



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