s onbrass plates about it, not unlike a coffin, paintedblack. His acquaintance, Dr. Darrell, humor-ously satirized it in one stanza of an excellentballad to the tune of Chevy Chase, intendedas a good-natured joke on Willis, and whichruns thus :— His car himself he did provideTo stand in double… … one person, or, at most, two, with a squeeze.The body of this carriage had a reclining slope,like that in use in Annes reign, as already ex-hibited in Fig. 13; but it must have been amiserable conveyance, without springs, andpulled only by a single horse, upon which thedriver sits, in order to save…
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