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of which is faftencd, by means of a double 

 flrap, a hook or an eye, to hang the horfes to. 

 This being drawn over a piece of turneps covered 

 with fnow, forces up the fnow into a ridge on 

 each fide, while between the ridges a llripe of 

 turneps is left bare ; without having received any 

 material injury from the operation, 



Vll. TimbertCarriaces. Although timber- 

 carriages may nor, in flridtnefs, be faid to belong 

 tp hufbandry, a defcription of them does pot fall 

 inaptly under the prcfent head. They are in 

 Norfolk, as In moft other places, of two kinds ; 

 the four-wheeled carriage — provincially, a 

 *-*drug •,''■— -and thepalrof wheels— provincially, 

 *' a gill." — The laft is moft in ufe; and of this 

 only I mean to fpeak : — not fo much pf its conr 

 llrud:ion, as of the manner qf ufing it, 



The conftrudion of the Norfolk gill is fimi^ 

 lar to that of the timber-wheels of moft other 

 countries : namely, a pair of tall wheels, with 

 a crooked axletree, furmounted by a block ; to 

 which axle is fixed a pair of lliafts, or fome? 

 times a fingle pole, only. 



But the method of ufing them, here, is dif- 

 ferent from that which I have obferved in other 

 pkccs; where the only ufc they are put to is 



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