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HORSE-SHOES JXD HORSE-SHOEIXG. 



sented is the thickest we have found ; it was associated 

 with more than twenty others mixed up with some Ro- 



man remains and coins of the 4th century. This variety 

 is found in tlie middle ages, in tlic ruins of various castles, 

 as that of Sogron (fig. 45); a circumstance which leads 

 us to think that they commence in the barbarian epoch, 

 and continue during the middle af:;es, not regularly or as 

 a generally ado|)ted style, but rather as a foreign import- 

 ation whose origin is unknown. 



'Shoes really oi the uiiddlc ages, and anterior to the 



