iMPLEMENTS. ^y 



CARTS. 



Mr. Overman, of Burnham, made an improvement 

 in his carts, of beautiful simplicity: instead of the toe- 

 stick, as in the common, drawing out to let the buck tilt 

 up, and deliver tlie load, it turns in the centre on a pivot, 

 and the hooks which confine it at the ends, being each in 

 a position the reverse of the other, 



the least motion laterally, frees It, and permits the buck 

 to rise. 



A thought of no small value also, is that of chaining the 

 tail-board to the cart. It is not uncommon elsewhere to 

 see the carter, in unloading, leave his board, and have to 

 go many steps for it; not to mention carelessness in mis- 

 laying, and time lost in searching. 



Yarmouth, from the singular arrangement of the streets, 

 will not admit common carriages for the domestic purposes 

 of the town. It consists of two large streets, but all the 

 cross-ones (called rou:sJ are so narrow, that a cart more than 

 3 feet or 3^ broad, cannot enter them. Necessity, there- 

 fore, has happily driven tlie inhabitants to the best of all 

 vehicles fur carriage, those of a single horse or ass; they 

 are not well constru6led, as too great a weight rests oit 

 the back of the animal, from the load being all before the 

 axletree : however, the loads they carry are considerable; 

 seven coombs of wheat are a common load ; a hogshead of 

 sugar the same ; one man and cart have moved ten score 

 of corn in a day. 



DRILL 



