ANCIENT CHARIOT. 2S3 



made fo much ufe in this defcription, as alfo to that 

 in the fifth book of the Iliad, v. 7 i 9, — and to refer his 

 eyes to the many examples which he may fee in draw- 

 ings from antiquities, (many very fine examples of 

 which he may fee in Mr. Adams's drawings from the 

 remains at Spalatro ; two in the compartments of the 

 frize of the temple of Jupiter, and one in a bafTo re- 

 lievo in the church of St. Felix,) he will find eveiy 

 thing moll minutely confirmed, which I have above 

 defcribed : he will fee from this defcription of the 

 harnelling the horfes to the chariot, the reafon why 

 no traces or harnefs, according to our idea of fuch, 

 are ever feen, and why even the pole or temo is fcarce, 

 if ever, feen. — This defcription of the manner of af- 

 fixing the yoke to the temo or pole, and of harneffing 

 the horfes to the yoke, will explain every paflage that 

 occurs in common reading, fo far as relates to the bi- 

 jugae, or chariots drawn by a pair, or one yoke of 

 horfes. 



Before I proceed to the more mixed kind of equi- 

 page, I will juft mark, as I pafs, that the ancients fome. 

 time ufed carriages drawn by one horfe, which had 

 fliafts as our prefent common carts have. Which 

 fhafts were tackled to the collar or Lepadna, in the fame 

 manner as at this day ; how the weight of the fhafts 

 and carriage were fupported, I have no where feen or 

 read. The only inftance which I remember, at prefent, 

 to have feen of this fort of carriage, does not particu- 

 larize the manner in which this weight was born. 



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