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‘“T believe rolling tobacco the distance of many hundred 
miles, is a mode of conveyance peculiar to Virginia; and 
for which the early population of that country deserve a 
very handsome credit. Necessity (that very prolific mother 
of invention), first suggested the idea of rolling by hand; 
time and: experience have led to the introduction of horses, 
and have ripened human skill, in this kind of carriage, to a 
degree of perfection which merits the adoption of tle mother 
country, but which will be better explained under the next 
head of this subject. by 
“The hogsheads, which are designed to be rolled in com- 
mon hoops, are made closer in the joints than if they were 
intended for the wagon; and are plentifully hooped with 
strong hickory hoops (which is the toughest kind of wood), 
with the bark upon them, which remains for some distance a 
CARRYING TOBACCO TO MARKET, 
protection against the stones. Two hickory saplings are 
affixed to the hogshead, for shafts by boring an auger-hole 
through them to receive the gudgeons or pivots, in the man- 
ner of a field rolling-stone; and these receive pins of wood, 
with square tapered points, which are admitted through 
square mortises made central in the heading, and.driven a 
considerable depth into the solid tobacco. Upon the hind 
part of these shafts, between the horses and the hogshead, a 
few light planks are nailed, and a kind of little cart body is 
constructed of a sufficient size to contain a bag or two of 
