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and Capacity, give your Leffons in proportion to his Me- 

 mory, and dilpenic your Punifliment and Rewards fuitable 

 to his Courage and Difpolition. 



CHAP. IV. 



Of the Trot. 



WHEN a Horfe trots, his Legs are in this Pofition, 

 two in the Air and two upon the Ground, at the 

 liune time crofs-wife ; that is to fay, the Near-foot before, 

 and the Oif-foot behind are off the Ground, and the other 

 two upon it ; and fo alternately of the other two. This 

 Adlion of his Legs is the fame as when he walks, except 

 that in the Trot his Motions are more quick. All Writers, 

 both ancient and modern, have conflantly afferted the Trot 

 to be the Foundation of every Leffon you can teach a Florfe; 

 there are none likewife who have not thought proper to give 

 general Rules upon this Subjedl, but none have been exadt 

 enough to defcend into a Detail of particular Rules, and to 

 diftinguifli fuch Cafes as are different, and admit of Excep- 

 tions, tho' fuch often are found from the different Make and 

 Tempers of Horfes, as they happen to be more or lefs fuitcd 

 to what they are deftin'd ; fo that by following their gene- 

 ral Maxims, many Horfes have been fpoil'd, and made heavy 

 and aukward, inftead of becoming fupple and adive ; and 

 as much Mifchief has been occaiion'd by adopting their 



F Principles, 



