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cnthufiaftic obedience. Thefe Gentlemen 

 have in fuccefllon, after going over (as before^ 

 obferved) a great deal of unneceffary ground 

 totally unintelligible to the fportiJig world^. 

 endeavoured to convince us, that pari?7g the 

 fole or frog is not only unneceffary, but 

 abfolutely prejudicial ; for, fay they, to efta- 

 blifh a credulous confirmation of their erro- 

 neous conjecture, *' if you pare away the fole 

 or frog in any degree, the more you pare, 

 the farther you lake from the ground the 

 fupport of the tendon, which fo entirely de- 

 pends upon the elafticity of the frog."' If 

 any one perfon living could be found {o un- 

 expectedly ignorant as to pare \k\^foot partis 

 ally (that is, all behind and none before) fuch 

 effect might probably enfue ; but furely no 

 rational obferver v/ill attempt to deny or dif- 

 prove a palpable demonftration, that all parts 

 of the foot being equally pared-, (that is, the 

 HOOF, SOLE, and frog) the centre of fup- 

 port and aftion muft be ftill the fame. 



But was it really as they have faid ; if 

 what they have fo learnedly advanced was 

 literally and juftly true, what do they im-» 

 mediately do after this judicious and dida- 



torial 



