DISSERTATION 



ON THE 



Ancient Chariot; the Exercife of it in the Race; 



AND 



The Application of it to real Service in War, 



Thomas Pownall to Richard Berenger^ 



AS you defired, in confequence of a converfation 

 which we had together upon the fubjedt of that 

 ancient armament, the Military Chariot, that I would look 

 out fome papers which I had formerly put together 

 on that fubjedl ; I have obeyed your commands, and 

 can only fay, that if you think they may prove matter 

 of curiofity or amufement to any of your readers 

 they are very much at your fervice, to make that ufe 

 of them which your judgment fhall fugged ; and if, 

 by way of explanation of the fubjeifl, they fliould prove 

 of the fame ufe to others, which (I conceive) they have 

 been to me in the courfe of my reading, the utmoft 

 end that can be expeded from them will be anfwered. 



The defcriptions of this armament, the horfe and 

 chariot, which one meets with in the ancient poets 

 and hiilorians, referring to a thing of common ufe 

 and notoriety, miglit indeed become to ihofe who were 



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