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 Figure 127 is a drawing of another of this class exhibited in the Museum of Besançon, which differs yet more in shape, though, unlike the last, it has only a single clip on each side.

M. Megnin, who does not appear to have noticed the existence of the class to be next described, evidently believes the two kinds to have been employed as chaussures for domestic animals. 'It is certain, indeed, that these shoes could only have been worn by very slowpaced pack animals, such as mules and oxen, and that the name given to them by the Abbé Cochet, hippo-sandals, is not suitable; it ought to be mulo-sandals or bu-sandals. This last designation was originated by M. Delacroix,