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I found, through the kindness of Lieut.- Colonel Brunt on who 

 allowed me to inspect the shoeing, the strongest possible 

 confirmation of the truth of my position : here were horses with 

 every variety of feet, shod with six nails, and these all placed 

 in the outside hmb and toe of the shoe, the inner quarter and 

 heel remaining free and unattached to the foot. Mr. Legrew, 

 the very intelligent veterinary surgeon of the regiment informed 

 me, that he had not employed more than six nails for nearly 

 two years, and that the loss of a shoe was a very rare occur- 

 rence with them even on a field day, than which there is 

 scarcely any work more tiying to the security of horses' shoes : 

 any mode of fastening, that has proved itself equal to retaining 

 the shoes through a long field day in stiff" ground, may very 

 safely be recommended, as fully sufficient for every other 

 kind of work. 



The question of the efficiency of six nails for road work 

 is settled, I should think, to the satisfaction of the most 

 sceptical by the fact of the 13 th having done the Queen's 

 escort duty during their year at Hounslow without the 

 loss of a single shoe. Any one acquainted with the rapid 

 pace, at which Her Majesty invariably travels on the road, 

 will readily admit the sufficiency of the test. 



The five nails, which I have employed, have been arranged 

 somewhat on the principle of " one-sided naiHng," recommended 

 and first practised by the late Mr. James Turner; and the 

 result has been most satisfactory ; the shoes have been not 

 only firmly, but easily held to the feet, as is evidenced by 

 the clenches not having risen in one single instance, a clear 

 proof, that the struggle between the expansion of the foot 



