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kind of shoe. This circumstance did not then 

 excite in the mind of the Author, any doubt, as 

 to the propriety of a practice which had so long 

 and so generally been acknowledged, but was 

 rather considered as an extraordinary exception. 

 However, other bad cases, which occurred occa- 

 sionally since that period, were treated in the 

 same way, and with the same success. These 

 facts, at lenorth, led the Author to conclude, that 

 a practice, which was so uniformly followed by 

 success, in cases where the established one as 

 uniformly failed, must necessarily repose on a 

 better principle ; although for a long time he was 

 completely at a loss how to explain it. For 

 if the action of cutting did principally depend 

 upon the faulty position of the fetlock joints, 

 and the feet, with respect to each other ; and it 

 appeared to be generally agreed that such was 

 the fact, it should seem, that a means which, by 

 raisino- die outer quarters, must throw the fet- 

 lock joints still nearer to each other, would ne- 

 cessarily increase the defect in question; but 

 as the reverse of this actually takes place, it 

 might induce a suspicion, that there exists some 

 other cause of cutting, which has been liitherto 

 overlooked. 



A minute examination of this point would 

 far exceed the limits allotted to this division of 



