OF HORSEMANSHIP. 75 



e H A P. X. 



Of the Parage, 



THE Pafiage is the Key which opens to us all the 

 Juflnefs of the Art of riding, and is the only Means 

 of adjufting and regulating Horfes in all forts of Airs ; be- 

 caufe in this Adion you may work them flowly, and teach 

 them all the Knowledge of the Leg and Hand, as it were 

 infenfibly, and without running any rifque of difgufting them, 

 fo as to make them rebel. — There are many forts of the Paf- 

 fage : In that which is derived from the Trot, the A6lion of 

 the Horfe's Legs is the fame as in the Trot ; the PafTage is 

 only diftinguifh'd from the Trot, which is the Foundation 

 of it, by the extreme Union of the Horfe, and by his keep- 

 ing his Legs longer in the Air, and lifting them both equally 

 high, and being neither fo quick nor violent as in the Ac- 

 tion of the Trot. 



In the PafTage which is founded on the Walk, the Adion 

 of the Horfe is the fame as in the Trot, and of confequence 

 the fame as in the Walk ; with this DiiTerence, that the Horfe 

 lifts hisFore-feet a good deal higher than his Hind-feet, that he 

 marks a certain Time or Interval fufficiently long between the 

 Motion of each Leg ; his Adion being much more together 

 and fhort, and more diftind and flow than the ordinary V/alk, 

 and not fo extended as in the Trot, in fuch a manner that he 

 is, as it were, kept together and fupported under himfelf. 



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