DEDICATION. iX 



turing the shoes. The great advantages 

 derived from introducing machinery in heu 

 of manual exertion, in many of the mecha- 

 nical arts, naturally led me to consider of a 

 mode of applying it to this purpose. 



And whatever my expenses, whatever my 

 anxiety in making a great variety of experi ^ 

 ments may have been, I feel myself already 

 in some degree recompensed by the reflec- 

 tion, that I have prosecuted to the utmost 

 of my power, a subject in the immediate 

 walk of my profession, and which appears to 

 involve a matter of some interest to society. 

 However, I trust, tliat at a period not far 

 distant, I shall be enabled to offer to the 

 Public, better shoes than have usually been 

 made, at a reasonable price, and that in 

 such a way as will promote the interests of 

 farriers in general. As a manufacturer of 

 Horse-shoes, I hold it incumbent on me to 

 recommend that principle of shoe, which my 

 past experience has shewn to be the best: 



