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1 have weighed common cars in Ireland, and find the light- 

 eft weigh zC. 2qrs. 1416. good carts for one horfe at Mr. 

 O'Neil's, 40. aqrs. 2tlb. and Lord Kingfborough had larger 

 carts from Dublin, with five-feet wheels, which weighed 70. 

 but thefe are much too heavy, in the lightnefs of the machine 

 confifts a great part of the merit. A common Englifh waggon 

 with nine-inch wheels from [JjCwt. to three tons. I built a 

 narrow wheeled one in Suffolk tor four horfes, the weight of 

 which was 25Cwt. 



Cwt. qrs.lb. 

 Every horfe in the Irifli car draws, weight 



of carriage, 2214 



In Mr. O'Neil's carts, 4 2 21 



In Lord Kingfborough's, 700 



In a broad wheeled waggon, 710 



In a narrow ditto, 610 



The extreme lightnefs of the common car is not to be taken 

 into the queftion, as it is inapplicable to a profitable load of any 

 thing, except a (ingle block, or facks. It is abfolutely necef- 

 fary a cart fticuld be capacious enough for a very light but bul- 

 ky load, fuch as malt duft, bran, dry afties, &c. as well as for 

 lay and draw. The Suffolk waggon for four horfes is twelre 

 feet long, four broad, and two deep in the fides and ends, 

 confequently, the body of it contains juft 96 cubical feet ; the 

 end ladders extended for hay or draw four feet more, and 

 there was a fixed fide one, which added two feet to the 

 breadth, confequently the furface on which hay was built, 

 extended juft ninety-fix fquare feet. In a great variety of 

 ufes, to which I applied that waggon, 1 found four middling 

 horfes, worth about twelve pounds each, would draw a full 

 load of every thing in it ; viz. from fifty to fixty hundred 

 weight of hay, twelve quarters of wheat, or fifty-five hun- 

 dred weight, and the fullage of Bury flieets by computation, 

 judging by the labour of the horfes to a much greater weight, 

 perhaps above three tons. I have more than once taken thefe 

 ineafures as a guide for a one-horfe cart, to give one horfe an 

 cxaft proportion of what four did in that waggon, the dimen- 

 ftons of the cart muft be as follow : the body of it muft be 

 juft four feet long, three feet broad, and two feet deep ; the 

 end ladders each one foot, and the fide ones fix inches. This 

 will be upon a par with the waggon j but I gave the carts the 

 advantage, by end ladders being each eighteen inches, and 

 the fide ones twelve, which made the whole furface thirty-five 

 fquare feet, four times which is one hundred and forty inftead 

 of ninety-fix. The weight of thefe carts complete were from 

 four to five hundred ; the wheels five feet high, and the axle- 

 tree iron, which is cflcntial to a light draft ; fuch carts coft in 

 England, complete and painted, from nine pounds to ten gui- 

 neas. Whoever tries them will find a horfe will draw in them 

 far more than the fourth of the load of a four horfe team, or 



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