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Hair, Teeth, and Nails quite frefh.- You will 
fee the Sandal * * is of one Piece of Leather, 
and a Seam at the Heel, with a Thong of the 
fame Leather. Ap^Tab, I. Fig. 2. and 3. 
It is the Skin of the Hand that is fluff'd, which 
has fuffefd by the Spade, -f 
III. 
* Mr. Catesby F. R. S. Author of the Hiftory of Carolina , 
&c. being prefent, faid, this Shoe or Sandal was exa&ly like what 
the Indians in Virginia wear at this Day, and call Mokaftn. 
fThat ingenious Artift and skilful Antiquary Mr. Geo. Vertue com- 
municated to me (C. M.) his Sentiments concerning this Sandal in 
the following Words : 
6 When the above Letter was read at the Society of Antiquaries , 
4 there was produced a Hand of the Woman therein mentioned, 
4 and a Sandal or Shoe taken from one of her Feet ; it being made 
4 of Leather, tann’d Ox-Hyde ; but remarkable for being cut out 
4 of one flat Piece, (fee Fig. 3.) fo as to fold about the Foot and 
6 Heel j the Form and make being fo contriv’d without under Heel- 
4 Piece, as to be flat to tread on ; the Shape, that of a Woman's 
4 Foot, and the Toe round-pointed. This being of an antient 
4 Form, the Society order’d an exadt Draught to be taken of both 
4 that and the Hand ; which Drawings are preferved amongfl: 
4 others belonging to that Society. It may be obferved concerning 
4 the Antiquity and Ufe of Leather Shoes in England , that this 
4 Shoe or Sandal appears by its Form to be ancient. I conceive it 
• was before Edward the IV. ’s Time, when, by Cuftom, piked 
4 Shoes had increafed in Length, that all fuch who wore 
4 them in exceflive Length were to be muldled, or have them 
4 cut Ihorter, in paffing in or out of the City-Gates of London . 
4 This very likely had palled among!! the better fort of People 
4 about the Kingdom Chaucer in his Time mentions the Ufe 
4 of long piked Shoes, fo long as to be tied up by Strings or fmall 
4 Chains to their Knees. 
4 Thus it might have been with Mens Shoes, but not in fo long 
4 a Degree for Womens Ufe 5 tho’ obferving antient Pictures of 
4 Men and Women in Books of Illuminations, piked'Sl o/s appear 
4 in fsveral Reigns from Ed. III. to Rich. III. in England/, 
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