ReJUSlions on Jhoeing HORSES. 357 



length of the journey •, experience has 

 fhewn, that the frog neither fuffers, or The frog 

 has fhewn the lead fign of fatigue or receives 

 fenfibility, by being thus expofed : and '^y^bdng 

 indeed, from the ftrudlure of it, it is expofed.- 

 fcarcepoflible •, for being of a foft, fpongy, 

 flexible fubflance, by its natural elafticity 

 it yields to the weight of the body the 

 inftant the horfe prefTes his feet to the 

 ground, and immediately recovers it again: 

 however, there is one cafe, whereby the 

 frog may occafion lamenefs, which is, 

 when it grows hard or dry •, but by taking 

 off the little end of the frog, this diforder 

 is foon remedied. 



As the bad confequences of Paring ^j^^ ^f^ 

 away the fole and frog have been pointed feds of 

 out, and, I think evidently proved, let modern 

 ps obferve now the ill eftedls of modern ftiodng. 

 Ihoing ; for it is upon the form of the 

 fhoes, and manner of fetting them on, 

 that not only the prefervation of the foot, 

 but alfo the fafety of their legs, and the 

 cafe of their motion depends. 



In effedl the more eafy our flioes fet 

 upon us, the more a(5live we are. ; fo a 

 large, long, thick fhoe, ought to have 

 the fame etfcdV upon horfes, that wooden 



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