Mulo-sandals, 311.
Muzzles for Greek horses, 32.
Mysteries, Samothracian, 362.
Mytilene, old hoof found at, 20.
Nail-holes, position and shape of, 667.
Nails, horse, first mention of, in history, 98; silver, 228; prices of, 406; number of, in shoes, 549, 668.
Napoleon, retreat from Moscow, 619, Napoleon III., Vie de Cæsar, 115, 135.
Nantes, old shoes found at, 145.
Navicular disease, 499.
Nero, employment of soleæ for mules, 64.
Neurotomy, operation of, 500.
Nibelungen, 203.
Nisbet, West, shoes found at, 423.
Norman Horse-Shoe, poem, 271.
Normans, did not introduce shoeing into England, 240, 292; at battle of Hastings, 391; shoeing among, 390, 391; breeders of horses, 423.
Norway, discoveries in, 208.
Norwegians, extravagance among, 208.
Oakham, shoes forfeited at, 292.
Old Testament, no mention of horseshoes, 15, 18.
Oluf Kyrre, first Norwegian King, and golden horse-shoes, 208, 442.
Opening the heels, 450, 467, 493, 604.
Oran, shoe of, 217.
Osmer, treatise on the diseases and lameness of horses, 497.
Ovid, 17.
Oxen, treatment of footsore, 68, 71; shoeing of, 60, 397, 404; Welsh, plough, 270; used in farm work, 405.
Paix de Dieu, 165.
Pallas, on Cossack horses, 228.
Pampas, no shoes worn on, 10.
Panathenaic frieze, 30.
Pantoufle shoes, 469.
Partlêche used for shoes, 232.
Paring hoofs, 51, 53, 54, 457, 476, 486, 497, 501, 538; absence of practice among Arabs, 217; evils of, 630, 641, 680.
Parthenon, old hoof found at, 20.
Patagonians, 109.
Patrick, Saint, smiths of, 350.
Pavement for horses to stand on, 24, 51.
Pembroke, Earl of, on horsemanship, 507.
Persia, smiths of, 361.
Persian cavalry, escape from, 40.
Peruvian mode of smelting iron, 176.
Peshawur, shoes on gate of, 383.
Petrus de Crescentiis, 395.
Pevensey Castle, 259; shoe found at, 260.
Pigeon-toed horses, 9.
Pitch for bad hoofs, 56, 71, 327.
Plated copper for bits, 119,
Pliny, 41.
Plough, improved by Gauls, 118, 365; Welsh, 270; employment of horses in, 281.
Podometric shoeing, 560.
Pollux, Julius, on the horse, 50.
Pompeii, absence of shoes at, 83.
Ponies, Tartar, shoeing, 231.
Portuguese shoe, 223.
Post-horses, Roman, 48.
Prasatia, 257.
Prevention of slipping, 606, 663
Prices of shoes and nails, 205, 216, 267, 399, 402, 434, 497
Prices of horses, 1 56, 424, 434.
Pricking horses in shoeing, penalty for, 291, 434.
Priests, sporting, 279; obliged to be craftsmen, 354.
Prints of hoofs, legends concerning, 272.
Quiquerez, M., on horse-shoes found in the Jura Alps, 171; on so-called hipposandals, 323.
Rasping hoofs, evils of, 477, 671; how to be performed, 650.
Regin the Dwarf, 203.
Reversing shoes to mislead, 223. 401.
Rey, Professor, on shoeing, 564.
Riquet, method of shoeing, 560.
Roads, Roman, 46; Gaulish, 124.
Roman de Rose, 441.
Roman du Renard, 185.
Roman horse-shoes in Britain, 249.
Romans, first employment of horses by, 38; cavalry of, 39, 616; roads constructed by, to suit unshod
