SHOEING. 157 



upon which the very adlion of the horfe de- 

 pends, 



Thefe are the external parts appearing 

 upon the fur face, that prefent themfelves 

 to the fpeftator, and conftitute in general all 

 that he is fuppofed or required to know ; re- 

 mote confiderations and operative confequences 

 appertaining much more to the profeilional 

 knowledge of the Artist than any acquired 

 information of the Owner. 



Perfedlly convinced that every man may 

 judicioufly fuperintend, or properly dired: the 

 (hoeing of his horfe, in a manner evidently 

 adapted to his foot, f^^, iveight, purpofe^ 

 and manner of going, without the ill-accord- 

 ing intervention of an abftrufe ftudy very 

 little attended to, (however elaborately urged) 

 I forbear impofition upon public patience, 

 by any attempt to introduce an imitation or 

 oblique copy of anatomical defcriptive, io 

 accurately delineated and defcribed in the 

 copper-plates and references of Gibson and 

 Bart LET, with, I am forry to fay, fo little 

 fucccfs ; if I may be allowed to explain, by 



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