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I. TPIE WAGGONSof Norfolk are of the 

 middle fize and middle height : higher than 

 thofe of Gloucefterfhire ; but lower than thofe 

 of the midland counties. They are very nu- 

 merous : upon -a middle-fized farm, three or 

 four are ufually kept -, carts being feldom ufed 

 here (notwith (landing the levelnefs of the couri- 

 try) in getting in harveft. However, to ren- 

 der carts ufcful in harvefl — more efpecially it 

 waggons are wanted— a fingular expedient is 

 here put in pradlice. With a common dung- 

 cart and a pair of old waggon -fliafts and fore- 

 wheels, a carriage is formed ; which, partak- 

 ing both of a cart and a waggon, is called a 



II. 'MAPHRODiTEi The points of the Ihafts 

 reft on the boifter of the fore-wheels, to which 

 they are faftened. A copfe, or fore-ladder^ 

 fimilar to that which is fometimes fixed upon 

 a cart-fhafts, but longer, is alio fupported by 

 the boifter, projcdting over the horfe in front/ 

 in the manner of the fore-ladder of a waggon j 

 the length and the breadth of the top of the 



'« 'mapbrodite"' 



