. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 448.—Foot at point of heel on thick alteration of the structure of the foot by shoeing, the writerintended to give a cut of the impression of a natural, unshod foo jupon the ground, showing that the outer rim or wall comes first,and that when theground is so soft as tolet the foot settle intoit, there is a corre-spondingly strongpressure upward andoutward upon thequarters. To do this,when in New YorkCity making illustra-tions for this work,he made three tripsto Flatbush, to obtaincasts from colts feetfrom four to fiveyears old, from
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 448.—Foot at point of heel on thick alteration of the structure of the foot by shoeing, the writerintended to give a cut of the impression of a natural, unshod foo jupon the ground, showing that the outer rim or wall comes first,and that when theground is so soft as tolet the foot settle intoit, there is a corre-spondingly strongpressure upward andoutward upon thequarters. To do this,when in New YorkCity making illustra-tions for this work,he made three tripsto Flatbush, to obtaincasts from colts feetfrom four to fiveyears old, from whichto make the desireddrawings. After theloss of a weeks time,and large expense,two drawings of suchimpressions weremade by two of thebest artists in the city. • *51—Adjustment at turn of foot. But it was finally decided that neither could be engraved so as to bring out the ideasufl&ciently clear andgood to be of any spe-cial benefit; conse-quently it was aban-doned. The sectionaldrawings given are made from a half-size scale of casts, showing the exact degree of concavity at diffe
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