ON" SHOEING. 



Th:' Patent Shoe not a Standard to work by. 



had shod a horse whose feet it was difficult to fit, 

 and he in the course of eight or ten days had 

 been obliged to be returned for alteration, these 

 men, after exan^ining the form of the foot and 

 the shoe, could, in general, tell the person who 

 had done the work. As all these men had dif- 

 ferent ways of working, they were thereby en- 

 abled to shoe some kinds of feet far better than 

 others. Thus much I have endeavoured to shew 

 the impropriety of attempting to lay before the 

 public a system that can never wholly be acted 

 upon. A number of patent shoes^ from different 

 parts of the kingdom, have been received at the 

 shop of the late Mr. Frost, at Nottingham, which 

 have been very neat, and well worthy of the at- 

 tention or notice of the shoeing-smith ; yet as a 

 standing rule to work by, all the men in the shop 

 have stated, that no such shoe could be formed, 

 unless nature had formed all horses feet alike. 

 The author has been informed that machines are 

 kept in town, whieh are worked by horses, for the 

 purpose of manufacturing shoes of this kind : but 



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