INDEX. 



Absence of horse-shoes in Eastern 

 countries, 7 ; South America, 10 ; 

 Africa, 33 ; the Sahara, 60, 214 ; 

 Muscat, 222 ; Germany, 470 ; 

 Scotland, 508 ; among Mongols, 

 7 ; Spahis, 11 ; Merovingians, 

 158 ; on mules, 7 ; on hind-feet, 



10, ^^, 204, 289. 



Abury, antiquities of, 247. 

 Abyssinian smiths, 358. 

 Adiga, Tartar song, 228. 

 ^thelbirht. King, laws of, 353. 

 Africa, system of shoeing in, 213. 

 Alauna (Alcester), smiths of, 349. 

 Aldrovandus, 67. 

 Alesia, Gaulish sanctuary at, 132, 



338 ; relics found at, 124, 126,366. 

 Alexander III. of Scotland, 444. 

 Alexander the Great, 34, 83. 

 Algerian shoe, 217. 

 Alphonso, King of Spain, escape of, 



223. 

 Alum, used to harden hoofs, 89. 

 Ambiht smith, 353. 

 Ambling horses, 424, 462. 

 Anatomy, studied by the Druids, 



338 ; first treatise on equine, 463. 

 Anglo-Saxon MSS., 287, 352. 

 Anthony, Saint, of Padua, 358. 

 Antiquity of shoeing, list of writers 



on, 13, 81, 82 ; Pliny on, 41. 

 Apsyrtus, 74. 

 Arabs, mode of shoeing, etc., 215, 



681 ; importance of smiths, 359. 

 Archbp. Hughes of Bcsanqon, 373. 

 Armour, Gaulish, 118; horse, 26, 



391 ; horse-shoes, a portion of, in 



loth and nth centuries, 165. 

 Arms, ancient, 337. 

 Arrian, 35. 

 Artemidorus, 35. 

 Aryans, 2. 



Asuel, shoe found at, 185. 

 Auferrant, 165. 



Baret, treatise on horsemanship, 461. 

 Bar-shoe found at Troyes, 145. 

 Basterne, or Prankish ox-chariot, 1 56. 

 Battle of the Vingeanne, 135. 



Battle-flats, shoes found at, 287. 



Bayeux Tapestry, 291, 409. 



Beauplan, travels of, 227. 



Beckhampton, ancient shoes, 246. 



Bede, his account of Easterwin, 354. 



Belgium, Gallo-Roman shoes found 

 at, 186. 



Bell, John, of Antermony, 225. 



Berkshire, shoes found in, 286. 



Besan^on, museum of, 138 ; Arch- 

 bishop Hughes of, 373. 



Bits, ancient British, 239; Grecian, 32. 



Blundeville, treatise by, 455. 



Boniface, Marquis of Tuscany, ex- 

 travagant display of, 440. 



Borneo, funeral rites in, 107. 



Bouda, an Abyssinian term, 358. 



Bouley, Professor, on shoeing, 13, 

 560, 591, 592, 593, 622, 657. 



Bourgelat, his aj listed shoe, 188 ; on 

 farriery, 491. 



Boutoir, 51,230,457, 500. 



Brass hoofs (figurative): Homer, 16; 

 Micah, 18, 525, 534. 



Breeds of horses: Vegetius on, 57 ; 

 Blundeville on, 456 ; Sequanian, 

 140. 



Bridges, Jeremiah, on farriery, 495. 



Brighton Downs, Saxon tomb on, 

 283 



British cavalry, ancient, 235 ; an- 

 cient horse-shoes, 240. 



Bromton, Johannis, description of 

 Duke Robert's journey, 441. : 



Bronze horse-shoe, Gaulish, 128. 



Bruce, Robert, escape of, by revers- 

 ing shoes, 40, 401. 



Bulls shod in Japan, 60, 90 ; in 

 China, 93, 232. 



Burgundii, tombs of, 181 ; antiquity 

 of shoeing among, 196, 201, 336. 



Burying horses with warriors, 104, 

 122, 226, 250 ; in churches, 113. 



Busandals, 302, 311, 326. 



Byrse, Celtic relics found in valley 

 of, 177. 



Cabiri, 363. 



Caenby, tumulus found at, 283. 



