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in those countries), to say nothing of Mexico and 

 South America. 



These coaches are made almost wholly of wood ; 

 there is little about them that ordinary country 

 mechanics cannot repair ; they have no expensive 

 steel springs, but leather thorough-braces which 

 can be replaced by the roughest workman ; they 

 are loose and flexible in their movements ; bear 

 an immense amount of hard usao;e without being: 

 disabled, and run safely over roads which would 

 dislocate an English coach in the first half-mile. 

 Other points in connection with these coaches will 

 be noted in the remarks on the American system of 

 driving in Chapter XIV. 



