The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 120
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 … Fig. 72,—Cart without wheels. From Burts Letters. when a heavily laden lorry puts on the drag as it comesdown hill:—what is it that we see, but carts without wheels—carts without wheels preferred to carts with wheels, wheneverthe circumstances in which they are to be used makes thewant of the…
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