APPENDIX 



T O T H E 



FIRST VOLUME. 



PAGE 14. " Their manner of riding," &c.] In 

 latter times, however, Arrian, fpeaking of them, 

 fays, that Saddles were not in ufe among them, nor had 

 they Bridles made after the fafliion of the Greeks and 

 Celts ; but, inftead of them, they governed and guided 

 their horfes with a thong or flrap, cut from the raw hide 

 of a bull, which they bound acrofs their nofes -. on the 

 infide of this Nofe-band, they fixed certain little pointed 

 pieces of iron or brafs, moderately fharp; the richer 

 fort ufed ivory. In the mouth a fmall piece of iron 

 was put, like a Bar, or Spit, to which the reins were 

 tied : when thefe were pulled, the mouth-piece ope- 

 rated, and the fmall teeth which were on the Nofe-band, 

 pricking the horfe, obliged him to obey, and anfwer 

 the will of the rider *. The modern inflruments, called 



* Arrian Hift. Indie, lib. 17. 

 Vol. I. R r CavefonSf 



