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io promote general improyement, will coin- 

 cide with me in opinion, and afiift the re- 

 Commendation by the force of example ; in 

 having the groove in the web of the fhoe, 

 for the reception of the nails, formed fuffici- 

 ently wide and deep to admit the heads nearly 

 or quite equal^with the flat furface of the (hoe, 

 by which effediiial infertion the fhoe firmly 

 retains its fituation, and the nails their 

 clinches, till a repetition of the operation 

 becomes neceffary. 



There are (as I have before hinted an in- 

 tention of explaining) fome general rules to 

 be remembered, as invariably applicable to 

 all kinds of feet without exception.- The 

 flioe (hould be uniformly fupported by the 

 hoof only ^ entirely round the foot, and brought 

 fo regularly into contad:, that it fhould not 

 prefs more upon one part than another ; it 

 fhould alfo be formed with a concave inner 

 furface, to keep it perfedly clear of the folcy 

 that the point of the picker may occafionally 

 pafs under the inner part of the web, to free 

 it from every extraneous or injurious fub- 

 ftance. The fhoe fhould not be made too 

 wide in the web, or too weighty in metal, 

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