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would not probably be much gain in finally deciding as 

 to which race of the human family, or to what age, the 

 successful utilization of the horse by arming its hoofs 

 with a hard rim of metal is due ; and it would, perhaps, 

 be more satisflictory and instructive to trace briefly the 

 progress of the art from its earliest known introduction 

 into the social economy of civilized nations, up to the 

 present time, than attempt to seek its inventors in the 

 perplexing obscurity surrounding this subject. But, as 

 before noticed, the interest which attaches to all that per- 

 tains to the horse, and particularly to the management of 

 its feet, by those people who were among the first to dis- 

 cover the beauties and merits of that noble animal, and 

 to press its strength,^ fleetness, courage, and endurance 



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