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INDEX.

Absence of horse-shoes in Eastern countries, 7; South America, 10; Africa, 33; the Sahara, 60, 214; Muscat, 222; Germany, 470; Scotland, 508; among Mongols, 7; Spahis, 11; Merovingians, 158; on mules, 7; on hind-feet, 10, 77, 204, 289.

Abury, antiquities of, 247.

Abyssinian smiths, 358.

Adiga, Tartar song, 228.

Æthelbirht. King, laws of, 353.

Africa, system of shoeing in, 213.

Alauna (Alcester), smiths of, 349.

Aldrovandus, 67.

Alesia, Gaulish sanctuary at, 132, 338; relics found at, 124, 126,366.

Alexander III. of Scotland, 444.

Alexander the Great, 34, 83.

Algerian shoe, 217.

Alphonso, King of Spain, escape of, 223.

Alum, used to harden hoofs, 89.

Ambiht smith, 353.

Ambling horses, 424, 462.

Anatomy, studied by the Druids, 338; first treatise on equine, 463.

Anglo-Saxon MSS., 287, 352.

Anthony, Saint, of Padua, 358.

Antiquity of shoeing, list of writers on, 13, 81, 82; Pliny on, 41.

Apsyrtus, 74.

Arabs, mode of shoeing, etc., 215,; importance of smiths, 359.

Archbp. Hughes of Besançon, 373.

Armour, Gaulish, 118; horse, 26, 391; horse-shoes, a portion of, in l0th and 11th centuries, 165.

Arms, ancient, 337.

Arrian, 35.

Artemidorus, 35.

Aryans, 2.

Asuel, shoe found at, 185.

Auferrant, 165.


Baret, treatise on horsemanship, 461.

Bar-shoe found at Troyes, 145.

Basterne, or Frankish ox-chariot, 156.

Battle of the Vingeanne, 135.

Battle-flats, shoes found at, 287.

Bayeux Tapestry, 291, 409.

Beauplan, travels of, 227.

Beckhampton, ancient shoes, 246.

Bede, his account of Easterwin, 354.

Belgium, Gallo-Roman shoes found at, 186.

Bell, John, of Antermony, 225.

Berkshire, shoes found in, 286.

Besançon, museum of, 138; Archbishop Hughes of, 373.

Bits, ancient British, 239; Grecian, 32.

Blundeville, treatise by, 455.

Boniface, Marquis of Tuscany, extravagant display of, 440.

Borneo, funeral rites in, 107.

Bouda, an Abyssinian term, 358.

Bouley, Professor, on shoeing, 13, 560, 591, 592, 593, 622, 657.

Bourgelat, his ajusted shoe, 188; on farriery, 491.

Boutoir, 51,230, 457, 500.

Brass hoofs (figurative): Homer, 16; Micah, 18, 525, 534.

Breeds of horses: Vegetius on, 57; Blundeville on, 456; Sequanian, 140.

Bridges, Jeremiah, on farriery, 495.

Brighton Downs, Saxon tomb on, 283

British cavalry, ancient, 235; ancient horse-shoes, 240.

Bromton, Johannis, description of Duke Robert's journey, 441

Bronze horse-shoe, Gaulish, 128.

Bruce, Robert, escape of, by reversing shoes, 40, 401.

Bulls shod in Japan, 60, 90; in China, 93, 232.

Burgundii, tombs of, 181; antiquity of shoeing among, 196, 201, 336.

Burying horses with warriors, 104, 122, 226, 250; in churches, 113.

Busandals, 302, 311, 326.

Byrse, Celtic relics found in valley of, 177.


Cabiri, 363.

Caenby, tumulus found at, 283.