An essay on the construction of wheel-carriages, as they affect both the roads and the horses : with suggestions relating to the principles on which tolls ought to be imposed, and a few remarks on the formation of roads (1820)
Fry, Joseph Storrs, 1766-1835 · Bristol : Printed by T.J. Manchee · leaf 38
there is less display of 116 ESSAY ON [chap. III. any thing like science, or even common sensethan in most things about us. I have oftenquestioned, whence the absurd custom ofpersons riding on the tops of coaches, overthe heads of one another: and the sohitionis this: when coaches were first built,… … This was undoubtedly the use and the soleuse of that part of the carriage, most likelyfor a century after it was first invented. Butit was, in my opinion, no more contemplated,by the early builders of coaches, that menshould ride on the tops of them, than it nowis that they should ride on the tops…
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