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the horfes' frogs and heels be of that nature to 

 endure the concufTion of the hard roads, which 

 moft affuredly, notwithftanding much confident 

 affertion, too many never can endure ; and if 

 a bruifed frog be not very common, all pra61i- 

 cal horfemen are enough convinced, how ex- 

 tremely liable the heels of horfes are to contu- 

 lion and inflammation. In bad cafes of this 

 kind, the only, and too much neglefted remedy 

 of the BAR-SHOE has been already appreci- 

 ated ; in general, to fet fuch feet upon their 

 natural level, all which ought to be attempts' 

 ed, will require fhoe-heels of confiderable 

 ftrength. 



It is matter of curious fpeculation, how many 

 of the affairs in the world are managed, not 

 merely erroneoufly, but in diametric oppofition 

 to reafon and common fenfe. Difcourfing the 

 other day with a friend concerning a horle, he 

 obferved, "' fo much had the horfe's feet been 

 " neglected, that his very frogs were fuffered to 

 " grow large enough to touch the ground ;"' 

 and this fagacious perfon had jufl fent to have 

 the defect remedied, which, to my obfervation, 

 was fo effeftually performed, that there was 

 nearly room for a man's fift between the horfe's 

 frogs and the earth he trod upon. 



Nothing can be more groundlefs, irrational, 

 and vulgar, than that prejudice againft vete- , 

 rinary improvements which atlually fubfifts, at 



this 



