ART OF SHOEING. 



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a draughtsman of considerable merit, were copied from spe- 

 cimens of the best-made nails of their kinds. 



Pig. 229 exhibits an assorted series of French nails obtained 

 from a Paris house, and selected by one of our professional 

 friends of that capital. The eight nails drawn for this illus- 

 tration include the extreme limits from the smallest to the 

 largest size used in that country, for shoeing very small up 

 to the heavy cart-horse inclusive. 



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Pig. 230. 



Fig. 230 represents a similar series of the old English rose- 

 headed nail, or, as they may not inaptly be called, " the Scotch 

 nails," since it is in the northern division of the kingdom 

 mostly that this pattern of nail has been retained in use to 

 the almost entire exclusion of other forms; whilst in London 



