SHOEING. 137 



afford a few more *' reflections upon 

 Shoeing Horses ;" but, exclufive of its 

 being a confeffed tranflation (and confequently 

 entitled to little more refpe<3: than hear-fay 

 evide?2ce in a court of jufticc) it is fo replete 

 with mechanical principles and mathematical 

 reafoning ; fo interfperfed with abftrufe refe- 

 rences and technical allufions to certain l)ones 

 and tendons^ their motions and effeBs^ that I 

 cannot reconcile the defcription as at all ap- 

 plicable to the intelledtual capacities of thofc 

 moflJy concerned in the operative or fuper- 

 intending part of the procefs. 



A third has produced what he denominated 

 *' A Treatife on the Difeafes and Lamenefs 

 of Horfes, with a proper Method of Shoeing 

 in general ;'* but whether from a want of 

 ^ability in his own difpofition (or what other 

 motive I know not) he foon took a formal 

 Jeave of the principal fubjecft, and entertained 

 bis readers with a dance through Turkey, the 

 defarts of Arabia, and ^ comparative furvey 

 of the whole animal creation; ornam.enting 

 almofl every page with various Latin quota^ 

 fiqns^ as an excitenient to the general im- 

 provement 



