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a matter that has been akeady more than 

 once concifely recommended to fruBical 

 circumfpecliori. 



That fuch hazard may be the better 

 avoided, it will be found an infurance of 

 fafety, to advance the front 7iails nearer to 

 the extremity of the toe, where the feat 

 of infertion is much wider, and bring the 

 hinder nails farther from the points of the 

 HEEL, where it is not only diredily the re- 

 verfe, but fornetimes too narrow to admit 

 of the infertion without danger. And in all 

 cafes where horfes are remarkably full and 

 flefh footed, with a heel exceedingly narrow, 

 it is certainly the fafeft method to let them 

 be fliod with the nails entirely round the 

 front of the foot, omitting their infertion in 

 a proportional degree behind. 



La Fosse, echoed by Bart let, con- 

 demns the cuftom of turning up the Ihoe at. 

 the heels, upon the before-mentioned objec- 

 tion of its '* removing the frog to a greater 

 diftance fropi the ground, by which the 

 tendon will be inevitably ruptured ;'^ but 

 could they now become fped:ators of thq 



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