Relief of Worses Fallen in Loaded Carts. 
possess considerable knowledge of horses, and who con- 
stantly employ these noble animals, I find, that horses 
remaining so long as they usually do in such improper 
positions, and from being often dragged a considerable 
distance by fruitless endeavours to raise them, are much 
endangered in their health and lives, and that their situa- 
tion upon the stones is more prejudicial than the injury 
received by the fall. 
I Hatter myself that my method will be found to raise 
the whole weight of the cart, and a considerable part of 
that of the horse, in the short space of three or four mi- 
nutes from the moment of the accident, by means simple 
and useful, and within the reach of the meanest capacity 
to execute ; and that the whole apparatus will not cost 
above fifty shillings, and will last many years. Request- 
ing your kind attention, 
I am, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
BENJAMIN SMITH. 
London , December 13, 1809. 
Advantages derivable from this Invention . 
1 .—The invention is of itself so simple, and the ope- 
ration so conspicuous at the first view, that the whole pro- 
cess may be easily comprehended and executed. 
2. — The apparatus may be fitted with little difficulty to 
any cart now in use for heavy loads, such as bricks, coals, 
<sorn, or the like. 
3. — The chains, which lead from the uprights at the 
back part of the cart to the fore part of it on each side, are 
for the purpose of taking the purchase therefrom, and 
making the back part of the cart act as a lever at the 
time the horses are drawing behind, which, without fail, 
with the strength of one, two, or three horses fastened 
