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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE SHOEING.
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| fig. 125 |
Cluny, France, exhibits one as a hipposandal, and is here shown in profile and upper surface (figs. 124, 125); and a similar one, found at Scrupt in 1846, is also delineated (fig. 126). This, M. de Widrange assured the Abbé Cochet, had been reported by the workman who found it, as yet attached to the limb of the animal by means of straps that had been first passed round the pastern, then through the eyelet in front, and buckled underneath the hook behind.
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| fig. 126 |
The Abbé, however, receives this information with suspicion, and I think in this he is justified.[1]
- ↑ 'Je le declare franchement, j'ai quelque peine à accepter cette assertion, toute positive qu'elle paraît. La raison principale, c'est que M. de Widranges n'a pas vu lui-même le fait qu'il raconte; qu'il le tient
