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Slender iron rods just two and a half inches thick and eighty feet long linked the rim, or felloe, of each wheel to a “spider” affixed to the axle.

The flanges bore against wooden felloes, made in two thicknesses, and put together so as to break joints.

They have also a small and ingenious saw of their own invention, for cutting felloes, and for sawing crooked lines, which for rapidity and precision cannot be anywhere surpassed.

Among the other essays and orations in Pages from an old Volume of Life, we find the Physiology of Walking, which contains many interesting facts concerning the human wheel, with its spokes and felloes.

The wheels are heavy, the hind ones twice the height of the forward ones, the tires of which are attached to the felloes in several distinct pieces.