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liorse, by letting him too suddenli/ down, falls to 

 the ground. But how will the utmost ingenuity 

 of man find a rational objection to the thin-keeled 

 shoe on its Jirst application to the foot of a Colt ; 

 for however small a quantity of iron is first put, 

 cannot have the effect of letting the horse down 

 (as attempted to be proved by the opponents to 

 the veterinary system of shoeing, &c.), and still 

 less can the frog be more exposed than it v. as in 

 the natural state of the foot ; indeed, the taking 

 of Nature for our basis, and keeping the foot as 

 much in that state, as the artiiicial mode in which 

 we use the animal will admit of, has led to those 

 beneficial results, which icw, 1 believe, will at- 

 tempt to dispute, except the ci-devant Captain 

 and his renegado Vet. and the lovers of novell y for 

 novelty's sake. 



I beg pardon for expecting your Royal Iligh- 

 Ress should devote your valuable time to sucli 

 points, it only remains for me thus publicly to 

 contradict the charge made by Captain Blagrave, 

 "^ that the practice of the Veterinary Surg«r;OOs in 

 " His Majesty's service, is at variance with their 

 " theory ;'* and I appeal to the whole of those 

 Gentlemen to bear me out in the statement I have 

 made, which so far mjjy be said to amount only to 

 " assertion against asscrLiim.''. \ therefore hereby 

 pledge myself (whenever your Royal Highness will 

 graciously condescend to atford me an opportu- 

 nity), that I villi praclicalli/ confute, and clearly 

 demonstrate to tbe ccnvictioi) of ypur Rqval High- 



