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the moft mountainous countries they are under 

 the neceffity of ufing them, becaufe no other 

 carriage can fo eafily be dragged up hills. 



A cart requires lefs power to draw it than a 

 waggon, and, if properly made, will carry top- 

 load fufficient of hay, corn, &c. : but in general 

 carts are badly conftruded. The body of a 

 cart lliould be made as wide as the wheels will 

 admit of ; by which means the fides may be 

 kept fo much the lower, and the body notwith- 

 Handing hold the full quantity, befidcs being 

 by fo much the ftronger. The fides Ihould 

 not be upright, but flying out gradually to- 

 wards the top : and when fide-boards are add- 

 ed, you may, by putting them on, increafe the 

 fize of your cart at pleafure. This method is 

 pradifed by the cowkeepers in the vicinity of 

 London, who enlarge their carts fo as to carry 

 double loads upon occafionj and it furely is 

 the beft poflible means of making a cart carry 

 a great burthen in a fmall compafs. By the 

 fprcading of the cart at top (or fhelving, as 

 fome call it) the top-load lies more fnug and 

 fteady. The wheels of a cart for hufbandry 

 ihould be low •, for then it will be eafier to fill 



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