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ground. For take a horse with the soundest and hardest 

 l 100 f — that is, one bred on the driest and most upland pas- 

 ture — he will, perhaps, gallop ten or twenty miles unshod, on 

 a hard road, without breaking or injuring his foot ; but let 

 him travel thirty miles a-day, even at a slow pace, for thirty 

 successive days, and before he has performed a quarter part, 

 his foot will be worn to the quick. Still less will he be able 

 to stand a daily stage in a coach. Even the Greeks shod 

 their mules and draught-horses. But the modern shoe of the 

 West, — and I believe it to be better than that of the East, 

 — compels the horse to stand in a most unnatural manner ; 

 namely on the crust, or outside rim of the foot only. This evil 

 can be remedied during the time that the horse is in the 

 stable by the pad invented for this purpose, by that inge- 

 nious and original thinker, Mr. Cherry. This pad is broader 

 than the interior opening of the shoe : must be compressed 

 in order to be placed within it ; and remains there when the 

 foot is lifted, merely from the pressure caused against the 



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