364 RefeSiions onjhoewg HORSES. 



This is the fubriance.of M. La Fofie*s 

 new method of fhoeing •, which from its 

 fimplicity, and the great eafe of perforni- 

 gf^^g 0I3. ing ir, feems to deoiand our regard and 

 jeciions to attention : but though it appears well 

 i^n nie» calculated for the flat pavements and 

 ^^^/'^ roads of JFrance, yet we doubt its gene- 

 " ral futcefs with us •, efpecially in fome of 

 our rough (lony countries, where the heel 

 and frog, being left fo entirely de- 

 fcnccUfs, nnight be liable to frequent in- 

 juries from fuch irregular loofe bodies, 

 as flints, loofe ftones, i£c» We fhould 

 fufpedl alfo its fuccefs on moift, greafy, 

 and fiippery foils or chalks ; where the 

 fhoe-heel, or cramps feems of great ufe 

 to fupport a horfe, by the imprefllon it 

 makes in the furface, how inconvenient 

 foever it may be in other refpeds -, though 

 k mull: be confefled, from our method of 

 flioeing race horfes, where the whole foot 

 comes into immediate conta6t with the 

 ground, notwithftanding the courfe they 

 j\3w over is often very flippery, yet they 

 fcldonifall. 



Tnoogh But though this method may not be 

 i>mot ge- |-Q generally adopted by us, in its utmoft 

 h^re^yei ^^ttnt,* for the reafons above given; 

 has arcat as well as from the difl^srent texture of 

 me:!;. horfes 



