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Upon two expedients for keeping up the name 

 and counterfeiting die principle of this shoe^ so 

 as to save them much labour. The' first consists 

 in making the toe thick, and in sloping it off 

 so rapidly on the quarters, that if the shoe be 

 laid on a flat surface, it will be found to touch it 

 only at the toe and at the heels* This kind of 

 shoe may with greater propriety be called a thuk- 

 toedf than a thin-heeled shoe. 



The second is still more simple, the shoe 

 being made as nearly as possible of the same 

 thickness throughout, except within about an 

 inch of the heels, where it is bevelled ofFsuddenly 

 to a thin edge ; and so in point of fact this shoe 

 may be said to be thin-heeled, although in point 

 of effect it is only a parallel shoe, robbed of a 

 portion of its flat surface. 



These are abuses of practice, and do not at- 

 tach to the principle of the shoe just mentioned; 

 but they aftbrd a strong proof, that if the prin- 

 ciple were ever so good, it would not be gene- 

 rally adopted, from the difficulty of applying it 

 fairly to practice. 



