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INDEX. 



Mulo-sandals, 311. 

 Muzzles for Greek horses, 32. 

 Mysteries, Samothracian, 362. 

 Mytilene, old hoof found at, 20. 



Nail-holes, position and shape of, 



667. 

 Nails, horse, first mention of, in 



history, 98 ; silver, 228 ; prices of, 



406 ; number of, in shoes, 549, 



668. 

 Napoleon, retreat from Moscow, 619. 

 Napoleon III., Vie de Ccesar, 115, 



135- 



Nantes, old shoes found at, 145. 



Navicular disease, 499. 



Nero, employment of sole^e for 

 mules, 64. 



Neurotomy, operation of, 500. 



Nibelungen, 203. 



Nisbet, West, shoes found at, 423. 



No foot, no horse, 5, 496. 



Norman Horse-Shoe, poem, 271. 



Normans, did not introduce shoeing 

 into England, 240, 292 ; at battle 

 of Hastings, 391 ; shoeing among, 

 390, 391 ; breeders of horses, 423. 



Norway, discoveries in, 208. 



Norwegians, extravagance among, 

 208. 



Oakham, shoes forfeited at, 292. 



Old Testament, no mention of horse- 

 shoes, 15, 18. 



Oluf Kyrre, first Norwegian King, 

 and golden horse-shoes, 208, 442. 



Opening the heels, 450, 467, 493, 

 604. 



Oxan, shoe of, 217. 



Osmer, treatise on the diseases and 

 lameness of horses, 497. 



Ovid, 17. 



Oxen, treatment of footsore, 68, 71 ; 

 shoeing of, 60, 397, 404 ; Welsh, 

 plough, 270; used in fami work, 

 405. 



Paix de Dieu, 165, 



Pallas, on Cossack horses, 228, 



Pampas, no shoes worn on, 10. 



Panathenaic frieze, 30. 



Pantouflc shoes, 469. 



Parficchc used for shoes, 232. 



Paring hoofs, 51, 53, 54, 457, 476, 

 486, 497, 501, 538 ; absence oi 

 practice among Arabs, 217 ; evils 

 of, 630, 641, 68a 



Parthenon, old hoof found at, 20. 



Patagonians, 109. 



Patrick, Saint, smiths of, 350. 



Pavement for horses to stand on, 

 24, 51. 



Pembroke, Earl of, on horseman- 

 ship, 507. 



Persia, smiths of, 361. 



Persian cavalry, escape from, 40. 



Peruvian mode of smelting iron, 176. 



Peshawur, shoes on gate of, 383. 



Petrus de Crescentiis, 395. 



Pevensey Castle, 259 ; shoe found 

 at, 260. 



Pigeon-toed horses, 9. 



Pitch for bad hoofs, 56, 71, 327. 



Plated copper for bits, 119. 



Pliny, 41. 



Plough, improved by Gauls, 118, 

 365 ; Welsh, 270 ; employment of 

 horses in, 281. 



Podometric shoeing, 560. 



Pollux, Julius, on the horse, 50. 



Pompeii, absence of shoes at, 83.. 



Ponies, Tartar, shoeing, 231. 



Portuguese shoe, 223. 



Post-horses, Roman, 48. 



Prasatia, 257. 



Prevention of slipping, 606, 663. 



Prices of shoes and nails, 205, 216, 



267, 399, 402, 434, 497- 

 Prices of horses, 1 56, 424, 434. 

 Pricking horses in shoeing, penalty 



for, 291, 434. 

 Priests, sporting, 279 ; obliged to bo 



craftsmen, 354. 

 Prints of hoofs, legends concerning, 



272. 



Quiquerez, M., on horse-shoes found 

 in the Jura Alps, 171; on so-called 

 hipposandals, 323. 



Rasping hoofs, evils of, 477, 671 ; 

 how to be performed, 650. 



Regin the Dwarf, 203. 



Reversing shoes to mislead, 223, 401. 



Rey, Professor, on shoeing, 564. 



Riquet, method of shoeing, 560. 



Roads, Roman, 46 ; Gaulish, 124. 



Roman de Rose, 441. 



Roman du Rcnard, 185. 



Roman horse-shoes in Britain, 249. 



Romans, first employment of horses 

 by, 38; cavalry of, 39, 616; roads 

 constructed by, to suit unshod 



