Plate 7. 

 I consider myself particularly fortunate in having obtained 

 the shoe, from which Fig. 1 in this and the preceding Plate 

 has been drawn, seeing that it presents an illustration of 

 nearly every defect, a shoe coiUd possess, without one re- 

 deeming quality to recommend it. I have been tempted to 

 add another view of it, because it enables me to show some 

 of these defects to greater advantage, than I could contrive 

 to do in Plate 6. 



Fig. 1 a. The thick wedge-shaped, objectionable heel. 



h. The mark made by the bearing of the crust, showing 

 that the shoe liad not extended far enough back, 

 to support the heel. 



c. The termination of the seating, and commencement of 

 the mischievous projection of iron. 



(/. The nail holes punched in the seating, where they 

 ought not to be. 



e. The flat surface whereon the crust ought to have 

 had an even bearing all round the shoe, and in 

 wliich the nail holes should have been punched ; 

 we shall however find upon comparing this sur- 

 face with the width of the marks of the crust 

 at h, that it is everywhere narrower, than the 

 crust to be supported by it ; so that the whole 

 weight of the horse must have been sustained 

 by the outer half only of the crust ; the incon- 

 venience of which would be greatly aggravated by 

 the four holes of the outer side being placed in the 

 seating, causing a considerable strain upon the nails, 

 whenever the weight was thrown upon the outside 

 of the foot, as it would be in turning to the left. 



ff. The seatuig everywhere overdone, excepting at the 

 heels, where it was most wanted ; and there it 

 is discontinued altogether. When a shoe is too 

 much hollowed by seating, it defeats its own 

 object by leaving space enough for a body of dirt, 

 or even small stones, to work in and become im- 

 bedded between the foot and the shoe, resisting the 



