The Journal of the Koyal 
baskets on a donkey's back, hanging down by the side. 
Series of central carr3dng wheels run on this top rail, 
supporting the weight of the moving load ; bat there is 
also a guard rail running^ alonty each side of the trestles 
nearer the ground, against which bear lightly a series 
of horizontal wheels for the purpose of balancing and 
steadying the suspended carriages, and so prevent undue 
oscillation. 
Amongst the adv^antages claimed for this system is 
the safety ensured by the condition of stable equilibrium 
of the carriages, attained by having their centre of 
gravity placed w^ell below the point of suspension and 
close to the ground, and also the portability and ease of 
erection of the track, which can be laid with a minimum 
of trouble over undulating ground, and across steeper 
depressions, ravines, &c., by simply using longer 
supporting trestles. 
Ill the Co. Kerry line the motive power employed is 
steam, the locomotives being of a twin form, suspended 
on either side in the same way as the passenger 
cariiages and other rolling stock. 
When at home in 1894, soon after the establishment 
t)f the Kerry line, I invited Mr. Fred. White, of Spros- 
tons, wlio was then in England, to come over and have 
ii look at the new system with a view of influencing its 
adoption for the Demerara-Essequebo Railway, then 
about being constructed. 
Mr. White, however, did not come, but I believe he 
subsequently made inquiries and got information on 
the subject at the head office of the Company in London, 
but too late for altering the arrangements already 
entered into by his firm for the construction of their line. 
