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Mr, Goodwin is not to be told that " there is 

 nothing new in the plan recommended by Cap- 

 tain Blagrave" ; but that its absurdity led to the 

 system of shoeing now practised at tha Veteri- 

 nary College, he denies. It was your attach- 

 ment to your own fanciful theory, that led to the 

 practice, and that in defiance of the admoni- 

 tions )ou received — a practice concerning which 

 the less your acute advocate says, the better. 



It strikes me, tSiat when 'your loving cousin 

 made the remark, that " there was nothing new in 

 Captain Blagrave's plan," he had not had not had 

 an opportunity of knowing. Captain Blagrave, 

 it is true, says that "he had tried it upon his own 

 and other horses for twenty years" ; but, had he 

 communicated the secret to him ? I think not : 

 nor, if I am well informed, to any one. Every 

 one may be trying to shoe like him, but until 

 he gives the promised explanation, I should sup- 

 pose, without the desired success. 



Your learned advocate, I think, in page the 

 ninth of his liberal and elegant epistle, quotes 

 you his preceptor and relative. I agree very 

 cordially to the first part of his quotation; but 

 to the last, wherein it is stated " where the 

 frog has been long removed from pressure,* &c. 



* Captain Blagrave proves that amongst the many evils in- 

 duced by bringing the frog in contact with the ground, an 

 abatement in speed is not the least* 



