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that he could never be able to go through a 

 second day's fatigue without an alteration in 

 his favour. 



Establishing; this as a fact not to be con- 

 troverted by the fallacious eftect of specu- 

 lative rumination, and perfectly convinced 

 neither entertainment nor utihty can be de- 

 rived from farther tedious explanatory re- 

 marks and observations upon the inconve- 

 nience of such mode of shoeing, as well as 

 the numerous difficulties not to be surmounted 

 if inadvertently encountered, I shall only 

 slightly insinuate the absolute impossibiaty of 

 hunting or travelling (particularly in ti)e 

 rainy seasons.) in various hilly or chalky 

 parts of the kingdom, without the accumu- 

 lated probabilities of lameness to the hor,se, 

 continual danger to the rider, and the inevi- 

 table certainty of bruising the heel and fiog 

 to a degree of disease, which must prove the 

 resulting evil even upon the flattest and l>est 

 turnpikes ; but in the rough and stony roaiis, 

 or strong and dry hard clays, such events 

 may be expected as totally unavoidable. 



Bidding adieu to a mode of shoeing calcu- 



