Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 34
econdgentlemen of China. The land bearsfour crops in the year. With all thisproduce and population the traffic isenormous, and it is mainly carried onby means of wheelbarrows, which areso contrived, by placing the wheel inthe centre and platforms at the sideand behind it, as to enable one manto… … WHEELBARROW TRAFFICON THECHENGTU PLAIN. THE WHEELBARROWOF NORTH CHINA. This is another form of the samebaggage-carrier which is in use all overthe Empire. It is much larger thanthat in use on the Plain of Chengtu,but is constructed on the same prin-ciple ; by means of it one man canwheel as much as…
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