. The science of railways . PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN GERMANY. Primitive carriage rapidly gives place to formsless interesting in countries so much the centerof interest and animation as Germany has beenfor many years past and promises to be for manyyears to come. In the by-ways of the empire,however, the Genesis of transportation may stillbe studied. Here we find the cow and horseyoked compla-cently together,or in their place,perhaps, the stal-wart, honest-hearted peasantwoman and the notless stout and pa- Jtient ox or are utilizedwhere the roads permit. They draw the carts,and when t
. The science of railways . PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN GERMANY. Primitive carriage rapidly gives place to formsless interesting in countries so much the centerof interest and animation as Germany has beenfor many years past and promises to be for manyyears to come. In the by-ways of the empire,however, the Genesis of transportation may stillbe studied. Here we find the cow and horseyoked compla-cently together,or in their place,perhaps, the stal-wart, honest-hearted peasantwoman and the notless stout and pa- Jtient ox or are utilizedwhere the roads permit. They draw the carts,and when their strength fails man supplementsit with his own. No one is idle. In the northin winter ice-craft, in a measure, take the placeof the boats used in summer. On the Rhine andother waters many heavy, slow-going vessels,modeled on old lines, ply back and forth. Amongthe hard-w^orking and saving people nothing isfrittered away, and the forms of carriage that (4S9). iJ-tC 460 CARRIAGE IN GERMANY.
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