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It is this which determines the Situation of the Hand, 

 which holds the Switch. The Left-hand being of an equal 

 Heigjht with the Elbow, fo that the Knuckle of the Little- 

 fino-er, 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 Wrifl: may direct all its Motions ; place 

 your Right-hand, or the Switch- hand, lower and more 

 forward than the Bridle-hand ; it fhould be lower than the 

 other Hand, becaufe if it was upon a Level with it, it would 

 retrain or obfiruft its Motions ; and were it to be higher, as 

 it cannot take fo great a Compafs as the Bridle-hand, which 

 mufi: always be kept over againft the Horfeman's Body, it 

 is abfolutely neceffary to keep the Proportion of the Elbows, 

 that it fliould be lower than the other. 



The Legs and Feet make up the fecond Divifion, of what 

 I call the moveable Parts of the Body. 



The Legs fcrve for two Purpofes ; they may be ufed as 

 Aids, or Corredions, to the Animal. They fhould then be 

 kept near the Sides of the Horfe, and in a Line with the 

 Man's Body ; for being near the Part of the Horfe's Body 

 where his Feeling is moft delicate, they are ready to do their 

 Oilice in the Inftant they are wanted. Moreover, as they 

 are an Appendix of the Thighs, if the Thigh is upon its 

 Flat in the Saddle, they will, by a necelTary Confequence, 

 be turned juft as they ought, and will infallibly give the 

 famo Turn to the Feet ; becaufe the Feet depend upon thera, 

 ^8 they depend upon the Thighs, 



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