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the contrary, we recollect, with painful pleasure, 

 that those papers contained the result of many 

 years' laboured research ; years of long, and dili- 

 gent, and patient investigation, indeed, that have 

 been succeeded by one of rich communication from 

 others, and with much successful revision on our own 

 parts*. These together, have greatly encveased 

 the former stock of information on all topics con- 

 nected with our main subject, and induced us to 

 concede somewhat to friendly advice regarding the 

 style of teaching the Art of Farriery to the unin- 

 structed, or, what is still more difficult, to the half- 

 taught. Conformably to this resolution, our plan 

 in the present new and improved edition, is marked 

 out, to steer between the two extremes, still re- 

 taining the familiar illustration and apposite re- 

 mark, which renders the most difficult arts familiar 

 to the generality of mankind — whilst duly re- 

 specting the requirements of scientific persons, as 

 to the terms of art and particular modes of ex- 

 position with which alone they are familiar f. 



* We are not ashamed, nor afraid, to confess, that the new 

 doctrines on various topics advanced by us in our former edition 

 were not so adventured without great diffidence ; notwithstanding 

 the many experiments, much close observation, and the evidence of 

 our senses, which aided our conclusions. And among these, what 

 regarded, " awkward tread," was already undergoing severe re- 

 vision, when our attention was called to the coincidence of our 

 opinions thereon, with those of the celebrated Nimrocl, in the Sport- 

 ing Magazine for August, 1828, in which he confirms mainly, and 

 quotes largely, the very points upon which we had thus begun to 

 cogitate. Those quoted passages occur below, at pages 30. 4G. 48. 51. 



t A " Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery,'' writes thus freely, 



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