j^o S H O E I N G. 



ground, admirably adapted to prefefvc th^ 

 foot in a growing ftate of perfed:ion ; the 

 cafe is exceedingly different, and will bear no 

 parallel with horfes of the above dcfcription ; 

 nor can I heiitate to believe, but the abfolutc 

 neceffity of fubflantially guarding the foot, 

 is too well eftabliihed, by immemorial expe- 

 rience, to be at all iV.aken by the introduc- 

 tion of any new opinions upon that part of 

 the fubjcd:. 



I muf!:, to avoid a mifconception of my 

 purpofe, before 1 proceed, confefs my obli- 

 gation as an individual, to the memories 

 of thofe gentlemen who have formerly at- 

 tended to and written upon this head, with 

 a defire to improve it for the promotion of a 

 general good ; and am forry a total want of 

 paffive pliability in my own pen, will not 

 permit me to adhere to the '* good old cujloni'^ 

 of implicitly tranfmitting to fucceeding gene- 

 rations, the immaculate purity of their dic- 

 tations, without prefuming to introduce an 

 opinion of my own. 



** Learn to do well by others harm'* is 

 an axiom of too much excellence to be ob- 

 literated 



