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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
the seating as the strength and security of the web wih 
permit. The nails will consequently have a natural ten¬ 
dency to take an inward direction, and therefore will have 
a firmer hold, and be divested of that strain to which they 
are subjected in the common shoe. 
We have given a representation of the under-surface of 
this shoe, plate xi. fig. 2. 
THE SEATED SHOE. 
PLATE XI. Fig. 3. 
The seated shoe is of an equal thickness, perfectly flat, 
and parallel from the toe to the heel; only varying in 
width according to the form of the hoof to which it is to be 
applied, and similar to the ordinary shoe in the fullering, 
nailing, &c. The foot-surface, however, differs, in having a 
narrow plain rim, about the same width as the thickness of 
the crust, extending round the edge of the shoe, except at 
the heel, where it presents a flat surface, to the extent of an 
inch ; the other part of the shoe is hollowed out, bevelling 
from the inner edge of the seat, making it thin except at 
the heel, which is of the same thickness throughout. The 
intention is that the crust should bear upon and be supported 
by the seat of the shoe. The nail-holes are situated in the 
inner part of the seat, but the nailing is the same in 
principle as the common shoe. 
The advantage of this shoe over the ordinary one is that 
of the crust resting on a flat surface instead of an inclined 
plane ; and as it bears on the edge, it is less liable to induce 
contraction. But with that advantage, yet there are several 
objections to it. The shoe being flat without the proper 
degree of curvature, and the mode of fastening by pitching 
the nails inward, is equally destructive to the crust, although 
