178 SHOEING. 



fiot more the irx-egular furface of the (oot^ 

 upon a hard road or pavement^ throwing it 

 unavoidably into a variety of unnatural poii- 

 tions by the heads of fome nails being ridi- 

 Guloufly high or projecting from the flioe, 

 and others as much below them, than the 

 certainty of all the clinches being raifed in 

 a very few days ufe by the weight and adion 

 of the horfe, which on the infide of each 

 foot conftitute the evil to a degree of feve- 

 rity with horfes that go clofe, particularly if 

 permitted to remain long in fuch ftate unat- 

 tended to. Upon expoflulation, you are told, 

 ** this is a matter of no inconvenience ; that 

 they will foon be worn down and become 

 equal.*' If fuch affertion was to be admitted 

 without oppolition refped:ing the irregularity 

 of the furface, and diflortive pofitions of the 

 foot, it by no means affeds the certainty o>f 

 rendering the clinches not only evidently 

 injurious in the degree before recited, but of 

 little utility (after a few days wear) in fe- 

 curing the flioe in the lituation it was origi- 

 nally placed. 



This is a circumftance fo exceedingly clear, 

 that every rational obferver, poffeffing a defirc 



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