256 SHOEING. 



ING and Rowelling) till by my defire the 

 JJdoe has be 672 taken off, when the caufe has 

 been inftantly difcovered and immediately 

 removed. 



This is a circumftance that I doubt 

 not has fo frequently happened in the re- 

 membrance of every reader of experience/ 

 it can ftand in no need of flirther illuftra- 

 tion ; we therefore proceed to fuch defcrip- 

 tion of the exterior parts immediately con- 

 cerned in the operation of ilioeing, as upon a 

 fuperficial furvey meet the eye of every in- 

 fpedtor. Thefe are, firll, the bottom or lower 

 edge of the Hoof, furrounding the whole 

 extremity of the foot, not only as a fafe- 

 guard and general defence againft external 

 injuries, but is the dired: part to which the 

 fhoe is fcientifically fixed, to effed: the pur- 

 pofes for which it was generally intended* 

 Secondly, the horny or outer sole, co- 

 vering the entire bottom of the foot, except 

 the Frog, which is fituate in the center, 

 (pafling in a longitudinal diredion from heel 

 to toe) and forms by its elafticity the ful- 

 crum, or expanding bafis of the tendon, 

 4 upon 



