60 THE horse's FOOT; 



FIGURES XV. AND XVL 



I consider myself particularly fortunate in having obtained 

 the shoe from which Fig. 15 in this and Fig. 13 in page 58 

 have been drawn ; seeing that it presents an illustration of 

 nearly every defect a shoe could possess, without one redeem- 

 ing quality to reconimend it. I have been tempted to add 

 another view of it, because it enables me to show some of 

 these defects to greater advantage than I could contrive to do 

 in Figs. 13 and 14. 



Fig. 15. 



Fig. 15— -a. The thick wedge-shaped objectionable heel. 



b. The mark made by the bearing of the crust, showing thai 



the shoe had not extended far enough back to support 

 the heel. 



c. The termination of the seating, and commencement of tlie 



mischievous projection of iron. 



d. The nail-holes punched in the seating, where they ought not 



to be. 

 «. The flat surface, whereon the crust ought to have had an 

 even bearing all round the shoe, and in which the nail- 

 holes should have been punched : we shall, however, find, 

 upon comparing this surface with the width of the marks 

 of the crust at b, that it is everywhere narrower than the 

 crust to be supported by it ; so that the whole weight of 

 the horse must have been sustained by the outer half OQly 



