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 The Editor, therefore, of The Academy for Grown Horsemen has now to congratulate the public on the discovery of another work from the pen of the much-admired Geoffrey Gambado; a work that contains some of the most useful and extraordinary experiments, perhaps, ever made in Horsemanship: several curious customs and opinions of ingenious gentlemen, little known to the world, and some collected from very choice, but remote publications; together with (what will be no doubt esteemed invaluable) Geoffrey's most ingenious suggestions, and prescriptions towards the removal of every difficulty and danger incidental to that most noble art: his answers to some queries put to him, and his criticisms on others that were un-answerable.

By the putting forth of this work the public must be let into much useful knowledge. The many practical attempts and atchievements herein recorded prove, beyond a doubt, that such things have been; and having been, that in all probability such things are. And even those experiments that have not been at