370 ON THE ART OF SHOEING. 



to the number of nails in a (hoe, the following 

 table is according to the direction of ProfeiTor 

 Saint Bel : 



For Racc-horfes, fix — three on each fide. 

 — • — Hacks, Hunters, &x. feven ; four on the outfide, and 



three within ; the infide quarter being weakeft. 

 ■ Mail-Coachers, Poft-horfes, &c. fame number. 



— large Horfes, four on each fide. 



— heavy Cart-horfes, five on each fide. 



Solleyfel fays, that common fmiths, in order 

 to prevent pricking the horfe with their large 

 nails, pierce the (hoe too near the edge, which 

 practice, in time, ruins the foot. - 



The (hoe being fall nailed, the lefs there re- 

 mains to be rafped the better, and that inflru- 

 merit fhould only be ufed as high as the rivets, 

 but never above them,becaufe, in the nrft place, 

 it is unneceflary, and becaufe the furface of the 

 hoof is much injured, and difpofed to dry by 

 being rafped ; farthermore, a heavy and care- 

 lefs hand is extremely apt to touch with the 

 tool the origin of the nail juft beneath the co- 

 ronet, where it is extremely fenfible ; the con- 

 fequence of which is a fmall wound or bruife, 

 ending frequently in a fandcrack. 



Every foot mould be kept as mort at the 

 toe, as is confident with the fafety of the craft, 

 and the proper mape of the foot. My Lord 

 Pembroke's rule is, to cut the toe fquare, and 

 afterwards round off the angles ; and Laurentius 



Ruflius, 



