{snip}
>
> As for handling, an experienced laborer (usually a slave in Virginia)
could
> easily roll the hogshead up and down ramps, onto ships and into wagons --
> though most often the hogshead was actually rolled overland in the tow of
a
> horse.
*****Whence the reported derivation of the road named Rolling Road in
Fairfax County.
John Shroeder
******
Illustrations of this appear in Tatam's book on tobacco cultivation
> -- (published around 1800, but reprint in the 1960s or there about under
the
> editorship of Herndon).
>
> I have actually rolled a number of hogsheads when I worked at Colonial
> Williamsburg, and found them very maneuverable.  Of course I was working
> with empty hogsheads, but even so, I'll stand by their inherent
> maneuverability!
>
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