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ence, it would be wrong to load the prefent 

 volume with a more minute explanation. 



But the injury of the roads is only one part! 

 of the mifchicf ariiing from the wheels of 

 carriages running too narrow. The increafe 

 of draught (fee Roads, p. 181.); the ex- 

 traordinary f;refs and wear of the carriage ; 

 and the evil effects of overturning; — are mat- 

 ters of fiill more importance to farmers, and 

 other proprietors of carriages. 



It would, perhaps, be in vain to conjec- 

 ture the means through which the prefent 

 widths of the fpan of carriages have been 

 eflablifned in different countries ; each of 

 which has its particular width ; otherwifethe 

 difi'iculty of paffingin rutty by-roads would 

 be greatly increafed. 



In the prefent ftate of hufbandry and land- 

 carriage, and the prefent ftate of roads, it 

 appears tome evident, that gateways alone 

 ought to prefcribe bounds to the width of 

 carriages. 



o 



Farm gateways mcafure from eight feet 

 and a half to ten fccc wide. I know no ex- 

 traordinary inconvcnicncy arifing from a gate- 

 way of the latter widai j and through fuch a 



gateway 



