1^1 SHOEING. 



Jidc, as may require no uncommon powers 

 of comprehenlion on the other. Authors are 

 too frequently vain of their own abilities, and 

 feem to believe too much matter cannot be 

 introduced (however extraneous or digreffive) 

 to give their works the appearance of elabo- 

 rate ftudy and profound erudition ; loiing the 

 fubjed: in an affcdlcd fublimity of diftion, 

 without adverting to the great numbers who 

 either wifh to acquire information by every 

 poffible means where the trouble of reading 

 can be avoided, or to obtain the purport oi 

 their medical refearches by the moft fuperfi- 

 cial and leaft expenfive inquiry. 



The various anlmadverfions of different 

 writers under this head are evidently too 

 clofely wrapped in the veil of obfcurity, and 

 feem purpofely addreffed much more to the 

 anatomical judgment of the fciei^itific Artift 

 and operative Farrier, than to the underftand- 

 ings of the many, by whom we are to fup- 

 pofe it Ihould be equally tmdcrjiood. An ele- 

 gant arrangement of words, and ambiguity of 

 expreffion, may conftitute a loftinefs of ililc 

 more pleafmg to the gentleman or the fcholar, 



delight- 



