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Rude sledges and tumbling-cars were employed near towns, and afterwards carts, the wheels of which were first made of boards. It was long before travelling by coach could be introduced in Scotland. When Smollett travelled from Glasgow to Edinburgh on his way to London, in 1739, there was neither coach, cart, nor waggon on the road.
The only inland trade was in black cattle; the tracks were impracticable for vehicles, of which there were only a few carts and tumbling-cars employed in the immediate neighbourhood of the towns.
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