The compleat horseman: or, perfect farrier

Abstract

Part I. Discovering the furest Marks of the Beauty, Goodness, Faults, and Imperfections of Horses; the beft Method of Breeding and Backing of Colts, making their Mouths; Buying, Dieting, and otherwife ordering of Horfes. The Art of Shoeing, with the feveral forts of Shoes, adapted to the various defects of Bad Feet, and the prefervation of Good. The Art of Riding and managing the great Horfe,cirV. Part II. Contains the Signs and Caufes of their Dif- eafes, with the true Method of Curing them. Written in French by the Sieur de SO LLETSELL, Querry to the late King of France, and one of the Royal Academy of Paris. Abridged from the Folio done into Englifh by Sir WILLIAM HOPE. THE Introduction. Page i Chap. I. The Names of the Parts of a Horfe. ibid. Chap. II. How the Parts of a Horfe jhould be framed. 4 Chap. III. How to know a Horfe's Age while he hath Mark. 14 Chap. IV. How to know the Age of a Horfe which is pajl Mark, Shell-tooth'd, or Hollow-tooted, or whofe Mark is counterfeited. 17 Chap. V. Of the Eyes. 1,% Chap. VI. A Continuation of the Knowledge of Faults and Imperfections in Horfes, and what is to be obferv'd in buying them< z6 Chap. VII. How to know when a Horfe's Legs are good, z8 Chap. VIII. How to know a Horfe's Eeet. 41 Chap. IX. How to know if a Horfe be well bodied, or have a good Belly.