British manly exercises : in which rowing and sailing are now first described; and riding and driving are for the first time given in a work of this kind ... / by Donald Walker.

  • Walker, Donald, active 1840.
Date:
1834
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Credit: British manly exercises : in which rowing and sailing are now first described; and riding and driving are for the first time given in a work of this kind ... / by Donald Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hangs over tbe forefinger, and proceeding in the same way. When any single rein wants shortening, we apply the right hand to that part which hangs over the forefinger, and draw it tighter. When the reins are separate, or occupy both hands, and i want adjusting, we bring the bands together to assist each ] other; remembering that the inner hand, or that which supports the attitude the horse works in, is not to depart from its situation, so as to occasion any disorder, but that the outer hand is to be brought to tbe inner, for the pur- j pose of adjusting them. THE CORRESPONDENCE. To have a correct notion of the manner in which the hand operates on the horse's mouth, it must be understood that the reins, being held as described, are collected to such definite length, that bracing the muscles of the hand would rein the horse back, and easing them permit the horse freely to advance; the hand, for preserving a me- dium effect on the mouth, being only half shut, and the • knuckles next the wrist being nearly open. The hand, then, being connected to the reins, the reins i to the bit, the bit operating in the curb on the bars, and in i the snaffle on the lips, the rider cannot move the hand, , and scarcely even a finger, without the horse's mouth being more or less affected.—This is called the corre- ■ SPONDENCE. If, moreover, the hand be held steady, as the horse ad- • vances in the trot, the fingers will feel, by the contraction i
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