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fjim. — If you would come out of the Corner, turn your 

 Body again, your Hand will follow it, and your other Leg- 

 approaching the Horfe, will put his Croupe into the Corner,, 

 in fuch a manner, that it will follow the Shoulders, and be 

 upon the fame Line. — It is by thefe means that you will be 

 enabled to time the Aids of the Hand and Legs with greater 

 Exa6lnefs, than you could do, were you not to move your 

 Body ; for how dextrous and ready foever you may be, yet 

 when you only ufe your Hand and Legs, without letting 

 their Aids proceed from, and be guided by your Body, the)5 

 can never operate fo effedlually, and their Adlion is infinitely 

 lefs fmooth, and not fo meafured and proportioned, as vvhem 

 it proceeds only from the Motion of the Body. 



The fame Motion of the Body is likewife neceffary in 

 turning entirely to the Right or Left, or to make your Horfe, 

 go fideways on one Line, or in making the Changes. 



If when you make a Change, you perceive tlie Croupe 

 to be too much m, by turning your Body in, you will drive 

 it out, and the Hand following the Body, determines the 

 Shoulder by means of the outward Rein, which is fhorten'd ; 

 if the Croupe is too much ouf,. turn your Body oui, and< 

 this Pofture carrying the Hand out, fhortens the inner Rein,, 

 and confines the Croupe, ading in concert with the out- 

 ward Leg, which works and approaches the Side of the 

 Horfe. — This Aid is by fo much better, becaufe if exe- 

 cuted with Delicacy, it is imperceptible, and never alarms 

 the Horfe ; I fay, if executed as it ought to be, for we are 

 not talking here of turning the Shoulder, and fo falfifying 



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