SHOEING. ISS 



scholar, delighting in a judicious display pf 

 polished periods ; but in the present instance 

 is required such easy flow of plain descripr 

 tive matter, as becomes perfectly applicable 

 to the inferior capacities praportipnably in^ 

 'terested in its effects, Avho have not the least 

 right to be excluded their share of knowr- 

 ledge^ for the ostentatiays introduction of 

 jpedantic phraseology. 



Such.connected chain of useful informa- 

 tion, divested of obscure references to remote 

 considerations (that serve only to erect one 

 mystery .upon the basis of another), must cer- 

 tainly prove much more applicable to the iur 

 tentionalpurport of common couccrption and 

 general improvement than th^ many lar 

 boured dissertations, .whose titles promise so 

 ?nuch, and whose learned contents communi- 

 cate so little, at leasts to be generally underr- 

 stood : under the influence of this impression^ 

 J have ever considered such concise, plain, 

 intelligent advice, as will enable every gen? 

 tlenian, sportsman^ or traveller, to perceive 

 the necessity of adapting the mode of shoeing 

 ^o the shape of his horse's foot^ and the mai>r 



