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vented to preferve the hoof, had certainly none 

 of the inconveniencies that attend our prefent 

 method. 



In order to give a flriking example of this,we 

 need only to obferve a draught- horfe, when he 

 draws a loaded cart, at a time when the pave- 

 ment happens to become flippery ; we fhall fee 

 the pain and torment the poor animal fuffers, 

 his feet having no purchafe, he attempts in 

 vain, to claw the pavement ; every flep is a 

 flip, for which he is often whipt without de- 

 ferving it ; the back, breafl, fhoulders, legs, 

 and all are flrained, all upon the rack -, to 

 which may be added, the perpetual fear of the 

 whip, at every falfe ilep he makes upon a pave- 

 ment, which it is impofnble to draw a load up- 

 on •, under thefe circumftances the horfe fuffers 

 more in one league, than if had drawn ten 

 leagues upon the road ; the foundering, inflamed 

 lungs, fevers, and every other accident of afl:rain- 

 ed horfe are the confequences, which are often 

 attributed toother caufes : but what is flill more 

 dreadful, that the very worfl: jades do not fuffer 

 fo much as the beft horfes, v/ho put all their 

 ftrength forward, and yet are not the more 

 fpared for their willingnefs. 



I fliouldnct omit m.entioning here, that one of 

 the principal reafons that determined me to feek 

 a means of reforming the old m.anner of flioeing, 

 was the difliculty that horfes have to keep their 

 feet upon the pavement of Paris in a very dry 

 2 feafon ; 



