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narrower than usual ; 10. A shoe with crests or points toward the 

 ground surface on the toe and quarter, and barbettes at the heels ; 



11. A shoe With the calkins doubled over, and provided with rings ; 



12. The foot surface of a shoe with the heels turning up toward the 

 foot ; 13. Shoe with two calkins ; 14. A bar shoe ; 15. A jointed 

 shoe to suit any size of foot ; 16. A jointed shoe without nails, and 

 secured by the lateral border and' the heel-screw ; 17. A hind shoe 

 with calkins ; 18. A shoe with one of the branches greatly thickened 

 at the heel ; 19. A hind shoe with a crest Or toe-piece ; 20. A hind 

 shoe with the toe elongated and curled upward, probably for a foot 

 the back tendons of which were contracted, causing the horse to 

 walk on the point of the toe. 



Below, in Figs. 682-685, are given a variety of Old Roman 

 shoes found in England, France, and Switzerland, and supposed to 

 be from nineteen hundred to over two thousand years old. 



Fig 682. 



Fig. 683. 



Fig. 684. 



Fig. 685. 



