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runners must have inclined towards each other, the distance be- 

 tween them being less above than below. The distance between 

 them above, to judge by the length and form of the cross-bars, 

 must have been 5*5cm; if the runners are now placed in such 

 a position that their chamfered under-surfaces rest entirely upon 

 the ground, the distance below will be about 7 cm. When they 

 are placed in this position, the cross-bars will also rest entirely 

 on the chamfered upper surfaces. This, however, would be an 

 exaggerated divergence of the runners, and it can only be ex- 

 plained by the fact that the sledge is merely a toy or an in- 

 complete model. 



The cross-bars (which in the accompanying illustration 

 have been placed at a venture in the position they are presumed 

 to have occupied on the runners) must have protruded a little 

 beyond the runners on both sides of the sledge; before they 

 became weathered, they must all have been more or less uni- 

 form, notched at both ends so that a kind of neck is produced 

 at either side of the broader body. Each of the cross-bars 

 has towards each end of its body two holes pierced to receive 

 the lashing. As in each runner, a little below the upper edge, 

 there is a row of 7 holes, it is uncertain whether there were 

 one, or two holes in the runner corresponding to each cross- 

 bar; if we suppose there was one for each, there must then 

 have been seven cross-bars on the sledge, and these must have 

 lain close to one another. 



One of the cross-bars has an extra hole a little within the 

 centre of one of the edges. In the larger sledges there is 

 generally a hole of this kind in one of the back cross-bars 

 near the uprights where the baggage is placed, to receive the 

 lashing wherewith the latter is tied. But in this toy sledge, 

 where the runners have not the usual hole pierced in front to 

 receive the cross line which holds the dog-traces, this hole may 

 possibly have been bored in the first cross-bar in front, for 

 the reception of a cord wherewith the sledge was drawn. 



