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SHOEING. 



We give here a few specimens of shoes from Csesar Fiaschi's 

 work, published in England in the 16th century. The figures of 

 shoes he gives are twenty in number. No. 1. Fore-shoe without 

 calkin ; 2. Shoe with the calkin ; d 'I Aragonaise on one side, 



FIGS. 572-592. 



and the other side thickened ; 3. Lunette shoe, or "tip": 4. 

 Three-quarter shoe; 5. Beveled shoe, with the Aragonaise calkin 

 on one branch, and the other thick at the heel ; 6. Shoe with 

 sciettes, or projecting toothed border, thickened toward each heel 

 to prevent slipping ; 7. Thick-sided shoe, thin toward the inner 

 border, and seated like the English shoe ; 8. Shoe with buttons, 



