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the Line of the F'olte be larger than for CurvetSy and let 

 the Adion of the Shoulders not be quite fo high ; thus 

 you will not only check and confine his Activity and Light- 

 nefs ; but by railing his Shoulders in a lefs Degree, you will 

 give Liberty to his Croupe, and he will be enabled by this 

 Method to furnilh his Airs all together, that is before and 

 behindy better, and with more Eafe ; there is ftill another 

 Reafon for this, for when the Shoulders come to the Ground 

 from too great a Height, the Shock alarms and diforders the 

 Mouth ; and then the Horfe lofing the Steadinels of his 

 Apuy^ he never will raife his Croupe fo high as he ought, to 

 make perfedl Balotades, 



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