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war, and in the race, could not have flood the violent 

 (hocks to which they muft have been liable, if they 

 were not firmly compared and fixed ; and they appear 

 fo to be in all the examplars which I have feen, 



Mr. ProfelTor Scheffer has defcribed the parts of the 

 body of the chariot with the exadlnefs of a mechanic, 

 .yet he has not touched upon the article of the hang- 

 ing or bracing it upon the carriage : nor has he taken 

 any notice of the difference above defcribed, between 

 the Parade chariot thus braced on, and the MilJary cha- 

 riot. The form of the body of the chariot is fo well 

 known, that it would be a mere wafte of words to de- 

 fcribe it, and a needlefs expence to give a drawing of 

 it. I will only obferve, that the front of the body was 

 made breaft high, and rounded like a fliield, fo as to 

 anfwer to the driver the purpofe of that defence, and 

 was for that reafon called dcr7n^icr-)(Yi, or the fhield part. 

 The fides of the chariot floped away backwards almoft 

 to the bottom, or floor of the body, but differently, and 

 by various lines in different bodies. The hinder part 

 was open, and although not higher from the ground 

 than the height of a man's leg, yet there was fome- 

 thing of a ftep to it called 'ufls^voi. Whether the body 

 of the chariot was extended in breadth to the full ex- 

 tent of the axle-tree, is no where fpecified ; I think that 

 in no cafe it extended further than to the interval be- 

 tween the two outermoft horfes. However, from the 

 ufe made of it in actual fervice, it muft have been of 

 a breadth fufl^icient to allow the oflicer to ftand either 



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