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work to attach one or two pair of shafts. The conven- 

 ience of the plan is alleged to be, that, in many cases, the 

 wagon can be used with one horse to advantage — that 

 the two pairs of shafts are preferable to a tongue, be- 

 cause the cart harness, (without traces,) answers for 

 the wagon, saving time in shifting and expense of extra 

 harness. 



The bed of this wagon is made as wide as it can be 

 between the wheels and for convenience of turning, a jog 

 is made upon each side where the forward wheels would 

 strike, so it can turn very short and thus gives more room 

 inside. 



I have no doubt but this wagon is worthy of imitation ; 

 as, for instance, when required to be taken to the potato 

 field in the morning to be filled during the day, and to be 

 removed two or or three times within the time, one horse 

 can do it as well as two. In bringing home a load of 

 wood, as it is all the way descending from "the bush," 

 (as all woodland is called in Canada,) Capt. R., finds one 

 horse will do the work just as well as two. And so it is 

 with many other things. The only objection I see to 

 working two horses in shafts, is, that each works inde- 

 pendent of the other. But for some situations, these 

 and the Coburg carts, are both worthy an introduction 

 in a more southern latitude. And much to the advan- 

 tage of the Canadians, particularly about Quebec, would 

 be an introduction of some of our very neat, strong, and 

 light road wagons, in place of the universal little one- 

 horse cart. 



As for the Montreal drays, no one who has ever seen a 

 different kind, would continue to use such an awkward 

 contrivance unless as strongly wedded to ignorance and 

 stupidity as are some of the cultivators of American soil, 

 who still continue the use of implements equally awkward 

 and inappropriate for the purpose, as ladder drays or 

 dog carts, and some other things that they laugh at their 

 neighbors for using.^ SOLON. 



'The editor appended the following comment: "'Uncle Solon,' 

 like many of his travelled countrymen, forgetteth the ways of his 



