CURSORY ACCOUNT, 6-c. 



If a horse were to go without any defence to his 

 feet, on the pavements or roads in this country, 

 the outer parts of the foot would unavoidably be 

 broken, worn, or otherwise injured in a very 

 short time. 



Shoeing is obviously intended to prevent these 

 evils. 



Experience, however, daily proves, that shoes 

 occasion many alterations in the form of the hoof, 

 and various diseases in parts within it, which 

 do not occur when the foot is exposed to wear 

 in its natural state : but, as it is admitted on all 

 hands, that some coating or defence is absolutely 

 necessary to guard this part from injury when a 

 horse is worked, it becomes of importance to in- 

 quire what kind of shoe is best adapted to this 

 purpose, and is of itself attended with the fewest 

 inconveniences. 



A review of the history of Horse-shoeing 

 shews, that within the last hundred years, shoes 



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