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10 ft. 9 in. ; the body being 4ft ioin., the hind boot 2 ft. 9 in., 

 and the front 3 ft. 2 in. The splinter bar measures 6 feet, the 

 main bar 3 ft. 9 in., and the leading bars 3ft. i in. each ; the 

 front wheels are 3 ft. 2 in. in height, the hind wheels 4 feet ; dis- 

 tance between front and hind wheels, 2 ft. 6 in. The height of 

 coach, measuring to roof just over door, is 6 ft. 1 1 in., and the 

 bottom of the coach is 2 ft. 9 in. from the ground ; the carriage 

 or side springs are 2 ft. 4^ in., and the body or cross springs, 

 which connect the above, 3ft. 1 1 in. The front boot is 3 ft. 2 in. 

 wide, and the hind boot 3 ft. i in. ; the space between decks, 

 from the bottom to the top of the coach inside, is 4 feet, 

 and the distance between the wheels 5 ft. 8 in., the depth 

 of foot-board 2 ft. i in., breadth 3 ft. 10 in. ; the height from 

 ground at heel 5 feet, the slope upwards to the front being 

 made to suit the size of the horses as well as in some cases the 

 length of the coachman's legs. A coach built on these lines 

 will follow well without rolling, and be, if not quite, nearly 

 perfect. 



About foreign carriages we do not propose to say much. 

 The examples of American vehicles engraved in the work already 

 named, ' The World on Wheels,' strike us as remarkable for 

 absolute inelegance. These include the Rockaway ; the Jenny 

 Lind a gig body with a broad straight bottom and a hooded 

 top on four high wheels, of almost the same height as the 

 Concord waggon a driving seat placed about the middle of a 

 raft on four wheels ; the New Rochelle waggon two ill-made 

 gig seats, one behind the other fastened on to a large flat box ; 

 the gentleman's road buggy, otherwise by reason of the shape 

 of the body known as the coal-box, the four-wheeled cabriolet, 

 and others. There seems happily to be little danger of the 

 introduction into England of any of these curiously ungraceful 

 vehicles. 



The Volante, the delight of the Cubans, is said to be so 

 comfortable a carriage, and is so novel in construction, that a 

 word may be said concerning it. A capital description is given 

 by Mr. George Augustus Sala, in one of his books called * Under 



