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ART OF SHOEING. 



and over most parts of England and in the army, the wedge- 

 formed nail of Coleman has supplanted the older kind of 

 English nail. 



Fig. 231 respresents four nails, A and B showing these 

 in general use in Scotland, corresponding with the rose- 



Fig. 231. 



headed nail of old as used in England, and the wedge-formed 

 nail extemporised and introduced into practice by Coleman ; 

 these are of the small sizes such as are used for shoeing race- 

 horses. and D represent the same diverse kinds of nail of 

 large size, such as are in common use for shoeing the heavy 

 draught horses of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the dray 

 horses of London. 



