252 PRINCIPLES OF P. IX. 



Although, however, we admit deviation 

 from precise rules, yet we do not mean to 

 vary the system of riding or substitute ano- 

 ther for the road. 



If, as already described, you place your 

 feet parallel to each other, and about two 

 feet asunder, and your body upright, then 

 bend your knee, and sink your body that the 

 knee shall just, and no more than, interrupt 

 the sight of the toe, you will be in the exact 

 position of the manege seat. Still, then, 

 keeping the body upright, but sinking as low 

 as you can without stooping, or projecting 

 the knee before the toe, and you will be in a 

 correct position for Road Riding. The dif- 

 ference, therefore, you find in a shorter seat, 

 consequently a shorter stirrup. 



The restraint to be thrown off is this : first 

 that of the mind ; for having nothing to per- 

 form but what by your former practice you 

 can now execute without an effort, your 

 attention is amused by various other objects : 

 — next of the body ; for the exertions of the 



