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imperfedion of the common method of (hoe- 

 ing, and of the advantage of the new way, I 

 refer him to making the experiment ; afluring 

 him he is very much miftaken, if he takes all 

 I have faid^ for a fimple projed, which would 

 have no other merit than to have been formed 

 from a meer rational theory. I affert to him that 

 my notions have more folidity, and that in 

 praifing my new method of fhoeing, I declare 

 nothing but a fa6l a long time ago put in ex- 

 ecution, and confirmed by pradlice. 



The marquis de L. O *** colonel of horfe, 

 and a lover of horfes, to whom I mentioned 

 this new way of fhoeing in Odlober 1753, 

 knowing the llrudure of a horfe's foot, told 

 me he thought it an ufeful and good way, and 

 that he had a mind to have his horfes Ihod fo; 

 in Ihort he had it done, and tried it upon 

 fmooth pavements as well as upon ice •, and 

 although the roads were almoft impaffable this 

 year 1754, his horfes never ftum.bled ^ and he 

 recommended to me to go on with the fame 

 method. 



I have Ihod in this manner for a great num- 

 ber of houfes in Paris j the firfl eifay was made 

 upon my own horfe, who draws my carriage 

 to this day ; he ufed to flip frightfully in go- 

 ing, though he was fhod with cramps all round. 

 But as foon as I had fliod him in my new way, 

 he became as fure footed, as if he always 

 walked upon good ground. I even proved in 



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