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SHOEING. 



We give here a few specimens of shoes from Caesar 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 ; & 7 Aragonaise on one side, and 

 the other side thickened; 3. Lunette shoe, or "tip"; 4. Three- 

 quarter shoe ; 5. Beveled shoe, with the A ragonaise calkin on one 



Figs. 662—681. 



branch, and the other thick at the heel; 6. Shoe with sciettes, or 

 projecting toothed border, thickened toward each heel to prevent 

 slipping ; t. Thick-sided shoe, thin toward the inner border, and 

 seated like the English shoe ; 8. Shoe with buttons, or raised catches 

 on the- inner branch, and thickened on the heel of the same side; 

 9. A shoe which has the inside heel and quarter much thicker and 



