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MR. FRIEND'S NEW HORSESHOE. 
occasions, presents itself as a very acceptable and serviceable 
auxiliary. 
In the common mode of applying leather to the foot (which is 
either to shape it out to the sole, or else to cover both frog and sole) 
there is an evil attending its application, which Mr. Friend’s me¬ 
thod is well calculated to remedy. I allude to the want of due or 
salutary pressure to the frog. It being evident that, in the manner 
in which the ground-surface of the foot is commonly covered with 
the leather, the burthen from above must be borne exclusively 
by the w T all—at least, so long as the animal is treading upon a 
plane surface: whereas, with Mr. Friend’s shoe, the weight is 
sustained in part by the frog; a circumstance that cannot fail 
to render his shoe of peculiar value to us in cases of sunk soles, 
when we are desirous of relieving the laminse as much as pos¬ 
sible. This w r e take the liberty of recommending to the notice 
of our friend as an additional advantage his shoe possesses, and 
one of which he has not himself made any mention. 
The only drawback on its utility that presents itself to us— 
speaking, as w 7 e confessedly are doing, before trial of it—is one 
affecting its application. From the circumstance of the arti¬ 
ficial or leathern frog being more prominent upon the inner or 
upper surface than the surrounding parts, in cases wffiere the 
frog itself was prominent likewise, there would necessarily arise 
some difficulty in accommodating these surfaces: unless one 
were cut down or removed, the shoe could not possibly be brought 
to come into close contact with the wall. From Mr. Friend’s 
exposition, however, of the applicability of his shoe, w r e conceive 
.that he intends the u piles of leather’’ placed opposite the frog 
to be removeable at pleasure ; an arrangement that would, of 
course, neutralize our seeming, and perhaps unfounded, ob¬ 
jections. 
We conclude this short notice of our professional friend's shoe, 
with a conviction that it will be found a very serviceable innova¬ 
tion in cases generally, wherein it becomes advisable to seek the 
aid of leather. 
P. 
