St Nicholas [serial] . CELERIFERE WITH FRAME REPRESENTING A SNAKE. further effort could travel some distance. Whenthe pace slackened the rider had to repeat thepushing, and so continue his journey. Muchground was covered in this way on level roads,and especially down-hill, in a short space oftime; but it was hard to go up-hill. It has been claimed by some that the Cele-rifere was the invention of another Frenchmannamed Blanchard, whom Louis XVI. oncecommand-ed to per-form be-fore himon thisvehicle,in July,1779. Be-yond the fact that such a performance tookplace, on that and other occasions in
St Nicholas [serial] . CELERIFERE WITH FRAME REPRESENTING A SNAKE. further effort could travel some distance. Whenthe pace slackened the rider had to repeat thepushing, and so continue his journey. Muchground was covered in this way on level roads,and especially down-hill, in a short space oftime; but it was hard to go up-hill. It has been claimed by some that the Cele-rifere was the invention of another Frenchmannamed Blanchard, whom Louis XVI. oncecommand-ed to per-form be-fore himon thisvehicle,in July,1779. Be-yond the fact that such a performance tookplace, on that and other occasions in public,. THE DRAISINE. (SEE NEXT PAGE.)
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