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ject, as well as from the practice of the 

 Military Schools, where, by the simplicity 

 and practical nature of the methods adopt- 

 ed, more is done in one lesson than, in the 

 other schools, is effected in twenty *. 



While he has avoided all those peculiari- 

 ties of military riding which result from the 

 adaptation of its methods to bodies of men, 

 he has omitted none of those natural and 

 simple improvements which its teachers 

 were compelled to make, in order both 

 quickly and surely to instruct their pupils. 



* The result of this is that the military schools are crowded 

 with gentlemen, while the others are almost entirely deserted 

 by them ; and that they begin even to be frequented by those 

 ladies who are aware of the privacy, the selectness, and the 

 orderliness of the system adopted in them at the hours appro- 

 priated for the instruction of ladies. This is hard indeed on 

 the old teachers. Let them improve their methods ! 



