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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: telga, if he had not been lucky enough to discover a taran-
tass. It is to be hoped that the invention of Russian coach-
builders will devise some improvement in this last-named
vehicle. Springs are wanting in it as well as in the telga;
in the absence of iron, wood is not spared; but its four
wheels, with eight or nine feet between them, assure a cer-
tain equilibrium over the jolting rough roads. A splash-
board protects the travelers from the mud, and a strong
leathern hood, which may be pulled quite over the occupiers,
shelters them from the great heat and violent storms of the
summer. The tarantass is as solid and as easy to repair as
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