The Book of carriages; or, A short account of modes of conveyance, from the earliest periods to the present time (1853)
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) · London, Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 193
us-built sleighs, with any quantity of passengers, are whisked throughthe streets with their unlimited number of horses,from one to twelve, and even twenty. Ladies 186 AMERICAA^ SLEIGHS. and gentlemen drive their neat, elegant, and evensplendid sleighs, with their persons carefully muf-fled in… … THE BOOK OF CAREIAGES. 187 CHAPTER X. One of the earliest modes of conveyance inmost countries, was riding on horseback, and as amere path is sufficient for the passage of a horse,there was not great occasion for the constructionof wide roads; the fine ones made by the Komanswhen they acquired…
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