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Article XLIIL 

 On the Leith Carf. 



[By Dr. J. Anderson, to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, 

 T USE the freedom to fend you a drawing of an 

 ^ implement of labour, not as a new invention, 

 for it has been long ufed here, but as one of the 

 lighted, cheapeft, and handieft implements I ever 

 met with for its purpofes. It is the cart univer- 

 fally employed at Leith, for tranfporting goods of 

 all kinds from the fhipping to Edinburgh and that 

 neighbourhood. It confifls of a pair of fhafts made 

 of fir joined together by five bars of afh or elm, 

 with two deals laid upon them, and a fmall piece of 

 wood below the crofs bars, refting upon the axle, 

 for ftrengthening the bars^ all which are fufficiently 

 plain by infpeding the figure. (See plate L) The 

 whole of this is fo light that a man might take it 

 upon his fhoulder, and fo ftrong as to laft feveral 

 years in conftant employment. The firft c.oft is 

 from twelve to fifteen fhiliings, independent of the 

 axle and wheels. 



This fimple carriage is fo contrived as to be 

 yoked or unyoked with the greateft eafe^ for that 



purpofe 



