SHOEING. 1S7 



to affoi'fi a few more " REFtECTroNS upon- 



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Shoeing Horses;" but, exclusive of its 

 being a confessed translation (and conse- 

 quently entitled to little more respect than 

 hear-say evidence in a court of justice), it is 

 so replete with mechanical principles and 

 mathematical reasoning, so interspersed with 

 abstruse references and technical allusions to 

 certain bones and tendons their motions and 

 effects, that I cannot reconcile the descrip- 

 tion as at all applicable to the intellectual ca- 

 pacities of those mostly concerned in the 

 operative or superintending part of the 

 process. 



A third has produced what he denominated 

 *^ A Treatise on the Diseases and Lameness 

 of Horses, with a proper method of Shoeing 

 in general ; but, whether from a waujb of sta^ 

 bility in his own disposition, (or what other 

 motive I know not), he soon took a formal 

 leave of the principal subject, and entertained 

 hisxeaders \vith a dance through Turkey, the 

 deserts of Arabia, and a comparative survey 

 of the whole animal creation ; ornamenting 

 almost every page with various Latin quota-* 

 tions, as aa excitement to the general im- 



