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give them the opportunity of using it. For ordinary 

 Coaches, Kusk-vagnar, a pair of horses are harnessed 

 abreast, spannes i bredd, as with us in Sweden ; or, 

 when they are heavier, two, three, or more pairs, one 

 after another ; but for other wagons on which all sorts of 

 things are carried, and for carts, where they are large, 

 the horses are harnessed or spanned in quite a peculiar 

 manner, viz., not in pairs or abreast, as for the 

 coaches, but all in a single row the one after the other. 

 I have once seen as many as eight such horses spanned 

 all in a row after one another, nevertheless, it is rare to 

 see so many. Commonly five or six horses are used for 

 one of the large baggage wagons, tross-vagnar [T. i. p. 

 168], so harnessed tattdem, i rad. They are bound to and 

 after one another with strong iron chains, jarn-kadjor, 

 one of which goes on each side of the horse, and where it 

 comes sometimes to rub against the horse's side it is covered 

 with leather, so that it may not gnaw the horse, gnaga 

 hasten. The weight and thickness of these chains is 

 such that any other than English horses would with 

 difficulty be able to support it, for the horses which are 

 used here in England for these wagons, are as large as 

 the largest cavalier-horses, Ryttare-hastar, in Sweden, 

 fat, and of an uncommon strength. By the collars, 

 lokarna, the horses drew the load or the wagon, lasset 

 eller vagnen, which is fastened on to these iron-chains ; 

 and the chains are supported by straps, remmar, four 

 inches broad, which lie across the horse's back. There 

 are seldom any reins, tommor, used in the whole length 

 of this long row of horses, but they were accustomed 

 to be steered wherever he wished, or to stop or go faster, 

 only by the various and particular calls of the driver, 

 Kuskens. Also one never sees more than a single carl 

 accompany and drive a wagon and six horses spanned all 

 in a row. 



