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 It may be urged against the parallel shoe, 

 that It will wear out sooner at the toe than the 

 thick-toed one, and this will certainly be the 

 case ; but may in part be remedied by leaving the 

 toe solid, instead of making a groove or fuller 

 mark round it, and may be entirely obviated, 

 by steeling the fore part of the shoe of horses 

 which wear much at the toe, or are constandy 

 worked on a pavement. 



Indeed it would be an exceUent practice to 

 steel all shoes; for by the toe being thus made 

 harder than the rest, it would be prevented from 

 being so readily rubbed away ; and the waste 

 would be nearly alike in every part, till the shoe 

 was worn out. 



The additional expence of steeling, is too 

 trifling to be weighed against the advantage of 

 the natural plane of tread being preserved to the 

 last. 



Of the Shmfm^ the Hhd FeeL 



From the circumstance of the sole of the feind 

 feet being miicli more hollow than that of tte 

 fore feet, a shoe with a flat upper surface, may 

 be generally applied* 



