[95 1 



vented to preferve the hoof, had certainly none 

 of the inconveniencies that attend our prefent 

 method. 



In order to give a ftriking 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- 

 ferring it ; the back, breaft, moulders, legs, 

 and all are {trained, all upon the rack -, to 

 which may be added, the perpetual fear of the 

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

 ment, which it is impofîible 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 a drain- 

 ed horfe are the confequences, -yhich are often 

 attributed toother caufes : but what is dill more 

 dreadful, that the very worft jades do not fufrer 

 fo much as the befl horfes, who put all their 

 ftrength forward, and yet are not the more 

 fpared for their willingnefs. 

 : I Ihouldnot omit mentioning here, that one of 

 the principal reafons that determined me to feek 

 a means of reforming the old manner of Ihoeing, 

 was the difficulty that horfes have to keep their 

 feet upon the pavement of Paris in a very dry 

 2 feafon * 



