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tendino* to what they pretend to believe, a 

 proportional reformation in some part of the 

 operation ; viz. '' That the sole and frog of 

 a horse's foot need never be pared at all.'* 

 To take up as little of the readers time as 

 the nature of the observation will admit, 

 I shall very much contract what I wish to 

 introduce more at large upon the inconsis- 

 tency of the declaration ; particularly as 

 these refinements seem brought forward, more 

 from a scarcity of matter necessary tq com^ 

 plete their arrangement of pages for the 

 press, than the least probable utility to be 

 derived from remarks so erroneous in their 

 formation. 



Says the author before-mentioned, in con- 

 tinuation of his assertions, borrowed from 

 La Fosse, '^ There is another reason equally 

 obvious, which is, that the wisdom of the 

 Creator intended this outer sole and its ob- 

 duracy as a natural and proper defence to the 

 inner sole, which lies immediately under 

 the other, between that and the bone of 

 the foot." He then proceeds, " If it be 

 ^sked, What becomes of the sole when no^ 



