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il were the stern,) are collected by their 

 points at the other, and all bound together 

 with a rope, for there are no nails to fasten 

 them. The whole carriage is six feet in 

 length, and from the back part to within 

 two feet of the front its breadth is all the 

 way about four feet. From that spot the 

 keel begins to curve upwards, and the 

 transverse dimensions are contracted gra- 

 dually to a point. This sledge is drawn by 

 a rope that goes through a hole in the front 

 of the keel. The edges or sides of the 

 machine do not curve outwards, but rather 

 inwards. When any covering is to be put 

 on, which is always done in part when any 

 person is to travel sitting in this carriage, 

 and entirely, from one end to the other, 

 when it is intended to be used for the con- 

 veyance of goods, two or three semicircular 

 or archlike bows are erected, fixed by their 

 ends vtithin the edges of the carriage, 

 which serve to support a covering of seal- 

 skin, or cloth, ^\hose margin next the back 

 is loose, an J so far distant from that part 



