A System of Geography Or a Dissertation On the Creation And Various Phaenomena
A System of Geography Or a Dissertation On the Creation And Various Phaenomena
Joseph Randall
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The Roads are generally a deep Sand, which is fo hot in the fair Seafon about Noon, Way of that it would burn their Feet, jf they were not as hard Travelling, as a Shoe-fole ; and there is no fuch Thing as walk- ing in the Sand with Shoes on. When a Man of Subflance travels, he ufually tires ten or twelve Chairmen to carry his Palanquin, which is a well-contriv'd Couch with Pillows, and an arched Canopy over it : In thefe they fit or lie, as they think fit ; and it is carried by four of the Men... at a time, two before, and two behind, who lay the Pole upon their Shoulders, and run at the rate of four or five Miles an Hour, their Fellows relieving them at certain times without {landing ftill. A little before thy defign to bait, fome of the Men are fent to the Villages, where they buy Provisions, and they drefs it as they go along. Oxen are ufed to ride on, as well as for Burdens j they will trot on at a pretty round rate, and fometimes they run Races with them. It is very troublefome travelling in the rainy Seafon, the flat Coun- tries being overflowed, and innumerable Torrents falling from the Mountains j but this does not hinder the common People from taking Chap.
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