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Introduction 



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 gentle- 

 man of Lima are represented on horseback. " I 

 have endeavored," 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 Eng- 

 lish butcher's trot in appearance ; but, it is so easy, 

 that one might go to sleep on the horse : and, 

 after riding 'spacer, it is difficult to sit a trotter 



at first. It is, also, excessively rapid ;— good 

 pacers beating other horses at a gallop. The 

 ladies of Lima do not always ride with the face 



