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But I have still better proof to offer as to the 

 security of the shoe, and which I cannot help ex- 

 pressing with exultation, having ascertained that 

 the shoes of galloways, racing colts in training, and 

 middle sized saddle horses, require only seven nails 

 by this method, and are more secure upon the foot 

 at the end of a month's wear than where the usual 

 number are driven, viz, eight, and disposed of in 

 the common way, four on each side of the foot. 



Further experience has convinced me of another 

 error, which my doubts led me into on the first con- 

 templation of this subject : for iveak feet, with low 

 heels and flat soles, I imagined that nine nails 

 would be necessary ; but I have now satisfied my- 

 self, that in feet of this description the number should 

 be neither more nor less than eight in each shoe on 

 the one-sided principle, somewhat modified: the 

 deviation is this, — that the nails round the toe 

 should be so disposed of, as to bring the situation 

 of the eighth nail as far round towards the inner 

 half of the foot as the ninth nail would have occu- 

 pied as before directed. 



Thus the same principle of shoeing will be found 

 beneficial in these cases, taking care to exercise it 

 less extensively. > 



For the relief of corns, the side-nailed system of J^jJ^''^^p"^,'^' 

 shoeing, when carried to its full extent, is perfect. ^uTe^amnUld- 



When we reflect on the enviable rapidity with °*^*^°"'^' 

 which we travel in England, in comparison with 



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