The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 120
.But, when I saw what these carts were employed in doing,namely transporting peats, ferns, and hay from high groundsdown very steep hills entirely without roads, I saw that thecontrivance was admirably adapted for its purpose, and that THE PAST IN THE PRESENT. 97 wheeled carts would have been… … Figs. 70 and 71.—Two Carts without wheels. Inverness-shire. plough and the sickle to the reaping-machine. When boulders,for instance, are removed on sledges from the fields in whichthey have been turned up; when trees are transported onsledges from the high grounds on which they have been cut
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