the roads of 1755 were any betterthan they had been sixteen years earher,when Thomas Pennant thus described ajourney in March from Chester to London.The stage, he says :—- * was then no despicable vehicle for countrygentlemen. The first day, with much labour, we gotfrom Chester to Whitchurch,… … 84 strain and labour of six good horses, sometimes eight,drew us through the sloughs of Mireden and manyother places. THE APPLICATION OF SPRINGS. In the year 1768 Dr. R. Lovell Edge-worth, who had devoted much attention tothe subject, and had made numerous experi-ments,* succeeded in demonstratino-…
Horses · Carriages and carts
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