176 SHOEING. 



The cutting of horfes is in general attri^ 

 buted to feme impropriety in the mode of 

 forming or fetting the llioe ; though this is by- 

 no means to be confidered the invariable caufe, 

 forfuch inconvenience is fometimes produced 

 by very different means. Horfes, for inftance, 

 frequently injure themfelves when in too long 

 and repeated journies they become leg weary, 

 and though of great fpirit and bottom, com- 

 pulfively fubmit to the power of exhaufted 

 nature ; when hardly able to get one foot be- 

 fore the other, it can create no furprife that 

 they feel it impoffible to proceed in equal di- 

 red:ion, but move their limbs in the moft ir- 

 regular manner, ^warping and twijiing^ as if 

 their falling muft prove inevitable at every 

 fucceffive motion. In fuch ftate of bodily 

 debilitation, injuries of this kind are un- 

 doubtedly fuflained, and too often by the in- 

 advertency or inexperience of the rider or 

 driver, fuppofcd to arife from fome imp'er- 

 fedion in the operation of flioeing, which in 

 this inftance is no way concerned. 



It is not fo in others, where the fhoe be- 

 ing formed too w^ide for the hoof^ or with a 

 projeding fvveep at the hcel^ (particularly in 



horfes. 



