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mud and clay, or large ftones, and where there are deep ruts, efpecially in hilly countries, and where the people are poor, and confequently particularly ftudious»to keep their expences under as much as poffible-—Thefe are the places* and the people with whom fingle-horfe carts are in common ufe; and is a ftrong proof of the economy of the plan.’*** It is equally certain,” he obfeives,‘that where the coun- try is level, the roads free from ruts, and the people rich, they indulge in expenfive horfes, and in teams of parade and fhow. Such, for inftance, as thofe ufed by the brewers and diftillers of Middlefex and Surrey.” It is alfo farther ftated, that he has four of thefe one-horfe carts in ufe himfelf; and that in loading the gravel of flints they are always filled to carry twenty-five cubival feet, and for manure from thirty to forty.‘The great fuperiority of thefe carts is rendered{till more ob- vious and ftriking by the obfervations that‘* two horfes, yoked in fingle-horfe carts, will draw as much as three horfes yoked in one cart; that a common carrier

at Carlifle who many years employed a waggon, has laid it afide, and now ules fingle-horfe carts only; as he finds he can, by that means, carry much greater weights{.””

It is likewife fuppofed in the fame work, that the fuperior goodnefs of the roads in Cumberland may be afcribed to the general ufe of fingle-horfe carts; and that wherever waggons are employed they are the deftruction of roads, efpecially where the country is hilly, and where they are under the neceflity of having the wheels locked, as in fuch cafes the banks are ina manner ploughed up by them. The fame objetions are equally ftrong againft large and heavy carts, as they produce the fame bad effects only in a fomewhat lefs degree.

It is, in fhort, ftrongly contended that waggons cannot be advantageous to the farmer, fince the fame number of horfes yoked in fingle-horfe carts will draw con- fiderably more than when yoked fix or eight together. Befides, it is conceived that fingle-horfe carts are fuperior on other grounds; they are loaded and unloaded with greater eafe and convenience, and are more handy for almoft every purpofe, and fix or eight of them may be managed by a man and a boy at very little expence.

In thefe carts too, the fize of the wheels can be adapted with the greateft exact- nefs to the height of the horfes, and be placed with more convenience in regard to the centre of gravity of the load, by which the draught is confiderably leffened.

* The mountainous diftrias of Derbythire, Wales, Cumberland, Dumfries, Dumbarton,&c.&c + Agricultural Report of Middlefex.

{ Agricultural Survey of the County of Cumberland,