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and your inner Leg being likewife by this Method near your 

 Horfe's Side, you leave his Croupe at liberty. I call it 

 becoming a Part of the Circle yoiirfelf, when you incline 

 a little the Balance of your Body towards the Center ; and 

 this Balance proceeds entirely from the outward Hip, and 

 turning it in. 



The Aids of the Body then are thofe which conduce to 

 make the Horfe work with greater Pleafure, and confe- 

 quently perform his Bulinefs with more Grace ; if then they 

 are fuch, as to be capable alone of conftituting the Juftnefs 

 of the Airs ; if they unite, and make the Hand and Legs 

 work in concert ; if they are fo fine and fubtle, as to be 

 imperceptible, and occafion no vifible Motion in the Rider, 

 but the Horfe feems to work of himfelf ; if they comprize 

 at the fame time, the moft eftablifhed and certain Principles 

 of the Art ; if the Body of the Horfeman, which is capable 

 of employing them, is of confequence firm without Con- 

 ftraint or Stiffnefs, and fupple without being weak or loofe ; 

 if thefe are the Fruits which we derive from them, we muft 

 fairly own, that this is the fhorteft, the mofl certain, 

 and plaineft Method we can follow, in order to form a 

 Horfeman. 



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