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SECTION XXVII. 



Account of JVaggons, Carts, Ploughs, Har- 

 rows : the Price, &;c. 



THE price of a waggon in America is 

 one hundred dollars. It is nearly as light 

 made as a coach, and particularly the 

 wheels j for which reason the iron work 

 is not heavy or expensive. The body 

 is generally high on the sides, upright, 

 tilted with bows all over it, and covered 

 with white linen cloth, as they are chiefly 

 intended for marketing. The cover keeps 

 the sun off in summer, the frost out in win- 

 ter, and furnishes the farmer with a place 

 of abode during the time he is on his jour- 

 ney to market; or, when in town, to break- 

 fast, dine, sup, and sleep in. There are 

 generally pumps for water, near to the 

 place where the stands of waggons are; 



