tine Cornell University Library.
the United
fall of civilization in
history
of
carriages,
generally
these, a study
a
lifetime,
has
here
the
special
thanks
Messrs.
George
M.
Hooper
of
the
sledge.
—
the
Louvre and
the
invading
in
chariots.
—
Erlchthonius
being
—
CHAPTEE
VIII.
French.
—
—
Cluny
collection.
— Antique
phaeton.
Paul's.
—
som,
family
and
French,
English,
American.
the
Homeward
105
Ancient
march."'
HOMBR'S
Iliad,
are
queathed
of
the
consequence
now.
Primitive
Sledge.
was
wheels.
"pauc-wheels,"'
cut
early
theoretical
science,
this
of
of the Nile. The chief portion of the ruins stand
on
artificial
elevations,
circuit.
Among
these
other in Thebes.
is
three
hundred
and nine
during
her
existence.
21
Although
hieroglyphics, and Eameses Miamum,
there being
by way of
from
the
C.
1740),
Gen., ch. the
king ''who
v.
8)
(2
on the
Nechoh
24 ;
Herodotus
II,
161-169
Nebu-
"
places, with
the
every
kind.i
The
most
with
they
have
which are
Latins are ignorant
"
the
Divine
any higher than the humblest
in
we have
together
twice
On
the
is to be laid
the
closet,
where
it
has
tened to
as
or some
lacking
A
rope
connects
about to
at
the
top
hands,
observation
were
admitted
the
proper
action
to
the
limbs.
Certain
established
by
the
priesthood,
ated by
remained
the
same.
The
scribes
are
supposed
to
as we
taken
from
a
his head shorn and
bound with a ribbon,
and
a
skin-bottle
;
from a censer held in the right hand, at
the
bottom,
by
his
side.
3
For
this
purpose
the
sledge,
the
sledge
;
rear,
the stern of the boat indicate that
the
crossing
all-wise and all-seeing attri-
butes of Deity. In the language of antiquity, the helmsman or
pilot
was
Erebus
Hades, wafts
an
that
purpose.
1
Wilkinson
thus
describes
regions
priestly
order
; then
others
bearing
when
embalmed,
as
well
amulet,
and
deposited
seven
seven
in the
collection of
authors
Pharaoh Mykerinus
lived ten
centuries before
It is judged
is well
chronological order,
and give,
are
delineated,
and the combatant,
has
been
suggested
about
Ours
points.
Here
the
king
the
warrior's
labor
is
heads
of
slain
enemies.
the
bottoms
or
floors
are
is
that
his
legs
are
holding a
where
the
Whip
suspended
pkom
Wrist.
1
Wilkinson's
Ancient
Egyptians,
Vol.
I,
p.
372.
pression
of
—
an uplifted
of a battle.
king.
About
twenty
35,
and
yet
there
is
At first it
form of whose
of a kind
energetic
people.
In
the
numerous
palm-trees
and
monkeys.
These
from LXX
and
forty-
was
of the
the
has been completely
century
strange monument of the past, and it is not improbable
that
as
long
as
At the
seated on massive
thrones cut into the rock in such a manner as to
present the
be well
colossus measures three and a half feet, the
forefingers
three
of the temple is estimated at one
hundred
determine
The principal
it is a second
rooms
are four
illustrations, in
colors, of
audience-chamber
of
From the
center entrance
to the
innermost chamber
ray of
knee-
floor
to
the
nave,
tlie body
rest
for
a
axle-tree by a linchpin
hand-
somely
covered
while
drawing
his
bow
wise having
embellished bow-
through
Central
"that those who
as occupiers of the
who possessed
nothing which
they were
war, each
with the
and
all
moment's call, or to
These fought either
of
considerable
Importance
astonishing
edifices.
The standard-bearers
the 'flabella'
before men-
tioned, were
carried either
he
visited
left
hand.
"The
offensive
weapons
ally
covered
with
the
assault
of
fortified
at a short distance ;
rear, in order to provide against
accident, or the still
close
column,
military scribes,
other
respective
chief
royal car. The king
as he
the
to the usual humane principles of the
Egyptians, who seem
to
to
bands
bright
streaming
above
a rich
scribe
read
monarch, and the
divine favor. They
for using
the bow,
or enjoyed
of
suc-
cess,
however
inexcusable
such
a
display
day.
having the
hero.
The
the artist.
was
practicable
throughout,
Paris,
de
I'lmprimerie
been discovered
the
attendants
plaustri are called
from Syrene, to
the
palanquin,
The sides
of rushes or
thoir
kitchen-chairs.
Gen.,
the ends
so
faithfully
executed
their
respective
arc at a
made
that any
inches above
the shoulder
hub is one and a half
by three eighths of an inch, and, as
may
111
'B
the eye of the
two by one and three
eighths
are
mKH-iises, especially
from the
wooden tire.
by one and
a quai-ter inches,
joint,
extending
three inches in diameter,
and a half inches
wide. Wilkinson says that
with
ho discovered
in them
the two
heaviest
kind,
some
other
attached to it.
have been
inlaid with
position
and
fall
of
horses
the same scfurce.^
on
hundred
for
times
excelled
those
to my
mare in
mostly
represent
horsjes
and
compared
were kept
being used as
is
acquainted
with
Job's
description
praise,^
shthor, the mare was called, as
in
only
abuses
of
civilization;
that
dragging
vehicles
held
in
most
from
the
individual follow two
mechanic
This
vainglory,
or
levity."
"The
war,
Pricks
up
his
Shifts pace,
mane
reclined,
the
foe."
of the second century,
clogging of
roots of
and a
—
considered
worthy
the
be observed, was put
of the spokes.
The
forked
articles
probably is
ignorance
of
architecture.
For
the straight
and
pleasure
measure upon the
was taken to
enough for more
not
unnecessarily
provide
against
quiver.
The
third
displays
his
skill
in
putting
in
the
lining,
material chiefly
;
mail."
but likely
and
waged
warwith
the
Assyrians
more than
as in the
mounted
in
was
established
B.
B.
after Nimrod, in exact
mountains
Assyrians
attached
the
pole
to
of the
in
tenance,
all,
those from Khorsabad there are eight, and in some of
those
chariots, as
and of the
eye,
A
built chariots
Troy, and
easily surmise
respond
Curtius,
B.
paintings
and
an
exact
forms
foot in
—
by the art
in Oriental
style, the
of this chariot
referred
The
spear,
stuck
ornamented
with
a
carving
the chariot
mented
pole,
strengthened
the
upper
is much
the
back
use of
consid-
ered
two daggers, and also two hatchets, besides filling his hands
with
an
long spear. The body is
hung
in
front
additional evidence of
hunter's
In front
of the
history
instead
of
the
such
have
not
been
discovered
In
the
lions
brought
occupy
in
respects
from
those
we
elegant
plumes
the
yoke
Xanthus.
Another
chariot
write is
elegant in
although not
(Mesopotamia) are
Bible,
as
should the king
This
in the back,
pattern to join an interior square
leg. At the
the
head
the seat and
ture
harness, which
chest
is
most
unmechanical
manner
possible.
Unless
probably fonned
The charioteer, as well
feature in
the construction
wheel and the
;
ornament
pose.^
unlike
those
numbered XLII (see
once
more
as
standing
in
umbrella-bearer,
the one
this vehicle, a
the horses
furnish us with
which time
a
thousand
character.
3
No
doubt
given in
we
find
Museum. These are supposed
was
expe-
ditions
he paid
slabs representing
In Sir
supposed to
(B.
C.
521).
After
the
establishment
of
the
empire
august
C.
320),
backs
manner of
reining them
wonder and
of a
but a
saddles of Sennacherib's
horses in the
an
interesting
returning home
in 1767.
;
flight
over
Collection.
distinctive
scene of
chariots are seen
503-505.
to
which
birds
crown or wreath around it, and sacred to Jove. After
this a
*
that
expedition
made like
to
repre-
were
on
those
himself,
a
driver
and
sometimes
another
com-
batant.
horses
 
the lower
of
war,
together
with its wheels, was upwards of fifteen feet from the ground.
On these frames
wheels
shorter
blades
end of the
chariots
and if so,
hurry
of
the
people,
and
wrote a book
entitled De Be
end are
occupied with
Neapolitan, "nunquam
Latin translation
havoc of
this, in
of the
under-
stood,
ence.
all
these
scythe-chariots
skilled
in
military-
i
John
Scheffer's
efforts
hold,
and
could
inflict
more
damage
or
felloes
from thence
been
attached to the body, as the engraving shows, and, notwithstanding, it
might
be
said
not
that
were
fixed].
picture is not designed to
represent
the
Persians, which
nowhere used as
easily
some light upon the subject as
to
their
efficiency.
had about
army
of
the
Arachosians,
forward his
were drivers,
A. M.
whirled
the field,
Macedonians, as
ordered the ligaments
firm
a line
of scythe-
of
often
frightened, and, running
ranks instead
the
Roman
Senate,
The
Persians
had
and
youths to devote
time
in
the
poor
horsemen
the
Persian
prisoners
naked,
they
delicate that his soldiers, seeing them,
thought
with women. This
The
ordinary
comfortable
received
Alexander Magnus,
with
soft
cushions
to the
The
Persians
jealousy
 
king
a woman
with
iigures
of
Victory
around
on
distance.
At
the
the
sixty-four
mules
which
drew
and
"under-carriage,"
that
floating reins.
is ascribed to Erich-
the
confidence in
A. M.
its
third
period
worn
the point
when art
of writers.
In this
nomi-
sometimes
wood,
very
The
sides
of
war-chariots
Avere
much
=
These axle-trees
body by screws and
Vehicle
from
falling
to
the charioteer.
That the
rims of
reads
thus
of
Achilles
were
respectively
Kanthus,
placed
horizontally
of
the
pole,
flank
horses
in
quadrigas
which
were
bronze.
the vanquished
grace
the
triumphs
were
afterwards
as
Grecian
charioteer
race, his
instead,
so
that
the
wheels
none have
place
in
the
the
first
which his head
the race was
victor's wreath
dar,
which
we
the government of Corinth,
His
son
place
his
family
in
only
individual
in
been
banished
from
Athens
prize in another four-horse chariot-race,
the
same
1
of which
may be
tory.
Pausanius
says
that
previously caused
a char-
made
iots were
have
gained
something
in
stands
rotted by rain;
pait of
the way,
it
been a goal in
it the
Let thy left-
nave of
the seventh
time now
The course
harness,
shown,
designed
HOKSES
GUIDED
BY
A
STAFF.
to
keep
the
horses
together,
the
collars
supporting
the
by horses,
detailed in the
of
silver.
golden yoke,
battle and
conquest, led
time
when
When
from
wain."
we have
with
a
a long lance
the neck of
pierced animal
right,
holding
the
hand,
partially
concealing
the
symbolical meanings.
UnF. CIAN
a chapter
chariots
appears to
have been
Astor
Library,
New
York
City.
proverbially
The
The mounted steeds, and rein
their tempered
^
Alba Longa,
founded by
twin brother Eemus is
wolf, about
A. C.
753. In
a
canopy.
These
were
borne
Ci-
cero
the
traveler
sat
held in the
he
pre-
guished
his children,
qui occurrentes via dejicerant;
—
the
second
Punic
War,
forbidden
thing,
seems
Carpento rapitur
pinguis Damasippus,
testes
the fat Damasip-
with laminae or tiles, and sometimes the sides were enclosed
with entire
the seat,
eral use.
favorite vehicle with the matrons when
they visited the temples to perform the sacred rites or mysteries of
their
secuta est."
one time he ordered
the
be broken
in pieces
the
opposite
page.
Adams
warding
in most
their
light
comparison,
to
entitle
draft-animals.
The
roof
was
sometimes
sup-
ported
by
and ends so as to expose the
occupants
ditious
that
gentry
cut
through
the
sides
of
the
body.
'"'Inde
cisio
celeriter
ad
urbem
vectus
domum
Having
higher
Gaul
after
the
making good roads, being solid, level, and dry, and carried
forward in
survey,
considerable dis-
be seen. In order to obtain the earliest intelligence of
what was
passing in
traveled,
in
three
cisiums,
two hundred
Iiorse,
all
that the cisiums were
sculptured on a slab in memory of a distinguished female,
the
wife
by
it
to
have
been
the name of a cart or wain that seems to
have
been,
It
roof, the top of the box
being
roof-
shaped,
or
karre,"
wagons
chariot-car,
these always
impression
of Marcus
Aurelius at
shape,
With the English
Vol. I, ch. xvi.
word, giving it
a Roman termination.
jet
more
closely.
of bricklayer's cart.
carrum prevailing in
wagon."
are indebted
:
weight;
the rheda with
should
Indeed
judge
conveniently
tion in
service,
to
bring
up
ammunition
for
were
entitled
the
part
which
very
to enable
the
evidently much easier to construct vehicles to suit the condition
of
the
roads
"De Bello
Gallico," B.
I, ch.
vi, and
have been not inconvenient
beams or rafters, the
of oxen, the yoke
vegetables. Sometimes,
was
formed
for
draw-
ing
case,
but
was
fastened
for certain
Valerius
Maximus
a basket, which
and
driving
of
overloaded
as to be
occasionally mules
carried therein. These
were commonly goat-
around
with
untanned
ox-
in
the
in the
covered
all
around
with
hides."*
This
kind,
drawn
by
again in
curricidus, diminutive
Romans. A
in the
modern
writer,
we
think
without
sufficient
other
contemporary
nations,
a
armed
with
scjijhes.
At
to his
the
chariots
rhedas, and
standing,
and
were
rotarum,
ordi-
paulatim ex proelio
si
illi
de Bella
battle, yet
it Is
Greek, wrote
never
being
designed
easily carry one on his shoulders. The body was commonly
basket or
be free
im-
trimmed,
except
All the
with
looked
supplied with
to
have
been
chariot
drawn
earlier
coin-
ages,
being
much
purer,
a
chariot
of
the
Tarquinus
it
and
as
many
dred and
the
peasants
invoked
the
for
a
victoiy
a short
time had
elapsed, these
plays increased
so much
personages,
yea,
in the circus.*
and boxers of
Aventine Hills, so
that it was
from that height
addito,
in
which induced
of a chariot,
chariot-races
games. For this
populace were to be
kept together in good
chariot-races
without
might be no
want of the
Nero himself acted the part of charioteer in the circus,
driving
four
white
horses
through
public,
a piece of ground in the valley near the Vatican was
enclosed
that
he
spectators."
^"Aurigavit
of
people,
who
art. The
'
in
a
only
of rank and distinction gave gratuitous exhibitions to the people,
that
all
in
different
ways.
Sometimes
an
would be let
loose at a given signal as a spoil or prey to the
people.
There
are
still
on such
requests
that,
were
successful.
the
taming
them."^
In
will dare to attack
to bite
of Antiochj
the
markets,
tamed
like
sheep."*
(two-wheeled
vehicles)
appear,
by
not
merely
said to
spectacle of the gods ?
chariot in
sus est
primus, ut
quidam putant,
euiquam
tribute
show, were
richest
judgment,
yet
seemed
chariot
; at a little distance
who stretched out their hands byway
of supplication
the
same.
so
young
insomuch
that
Perseus
from
pity
their
fate
and
without a mixture
sandals of the fashion
of his country. He
great number of
pressed with
sorrow, and
ally upon their prince,
testified to the spectators
their
own.
He
be
derision,
it
still was, if
envy."
i
Plutarch
likewise
tells
us
that
subject
to
the
esteemed sacred, and is
pro-
cession
was paid
pile.
This
to
them
enemy of the bodies of
such Roman
emperors the
under
the
The
on its
to
the
on four wheels. The frame of
the carriage,
secured to the axle
"hard
and were
steady
enough
to
allow
the
passenger
juncta,
ct
lectica,
et
famUia
magna.
rheda,
letter,
a
slow
vehicle.
The
post
journeys
steps," or
seats
being
sta-
tioned
in
conven-
ience.
confided,
Theod. IX.
Tota demus
grocery or
from the
and the
emperor's use,
emperors
in a velilcle drawn
set out against the rebellious Gauls, he took particular pains
to carry
carpen-
tum
(p.
139)
already
noticed.
hung
not only
had
less
than
three
and that all
and
show
among
the
that
agreed.
Adams,
in
his
"Roman
with
ivory
and
silver,
in
Petorritum, sarraca,
scirpea, chamulcus,
which
we
TnE Benna.
classes for carrying
beauty in
or
iron
iron
rings
or
sockets.
These
poles
entire axle
was made
of iron.
On this
axle the
wheel was
attaching
fixed
in
or
furchells.
straps
tion
been
accomplished
were
shown,
at the
continent
upon
race
were
fbrced
those of Greece,
from whence the
Victory
some
characteristics
of
from
an
arabesque.
state, for
race. — According to
IXOMIIH,
mouth
of
the
Sarnus,
as
the
Sarno.
Sixteen
years
previous
down a
on
this
a
thin
series
of
light
stones
of
a
Pompeii.
In
an elegy mourning the death of a parrot given to his
Corinna,
Ovid
Indies of the
East, is dead.
obsequies,
your
wings,
and
This
see the
lazie
doves.
Will leape into
Samosata
the
virgin traveling
The
general
design
presents
a
watch
over
hidden
treasures.
Ephesus was
mounted
graceful
lines,
goats
the
painter
upon
nature.
a bath
shortly
produced
in
this
chapter
heretofore.
It
found in
picture,
drawn
by
mules,
edifice,
strengthens
of what
may have
been a
given,
a table
middle, on a
both
sides
of
the
road,
for
nearly
three
miles
before
entering
the
citj',
were
occupied
by
huts
and
public
monuments
intermixed
former
years
constructed.
On
these
roads,
though
excellent,
distance
the
oldest
relics,
back to
Around these
are arranged
Next comes a
by
one
of
eggs,
with fresco paintings
table of rare
riages
of
this
kind
this
arrangement
fifty
years.
are noticed
These
watermen
the heat are
Among these
drowned
two
Avithout
carry
or thi'ee more
dangling
in
front
sturdy
lazzarone
couple
his
whip
over
the
sitting
in
front
on
the
net with the children, and the
multitude
of
legs
dangling
on
all
drive back at speed,
ins: her
venient and much more
sedan-cliair,
the
gate,
while
measured
step,
for
the
sake
door,
individuals
to
require
sixteen
attached
that they
obedient as dogs
been preserved.
are of
some
other
wild
animal.
The
next
drawing
vehicles
a large American baby-wagon.
with visit-
of horses at an
are described as being very easy and pleasant to ride
in.
The
pauc-wheels in the primitive fashion, cows
taking the
Much
rooms in the
Jiecca, etc.,
all of
hack-cart,
in
"which,
sitting
tuilor-fashion,
is
seen
easy
in
which
some
disadvantage
head.
Even
in
drawn about
construction.
Four
equal-sized
at the
the mortising
ruts made
by the
;
when once
that a little
occasionally
repairing
collec-
twenty
as a nation were
houses with them,
equestrian
archers, living not from the cultivation of the soil, but from
cattle, and whose
represented
so cold in the winter, and the Cimmerian Bosphorus freezes
so hard,
3 These "barbarians,"
the
wheels,
The
pins,
no
axle-trees, had an upright added
to
and very
them,
they
therefore,
debt
of
nature,
were
strangled,
these
last
disemboweled,
the air; then
of
from the
of wood that
"The
oxen
and
horses
judging from their vehicles,
could not
of
wheels
could
suits.
What
province of Weiselberg,
but was formerly known by the
name
of
was even
there invented.
a
covered
carriage
have always existed in some form
since
the
have increased
seem to have
Fair
under
severe
penalties,'
Emergard,
wife
of
Queen Joan
and her
Bar
her
Coucy.
ladies and
full
emplaymcnt,
in.
making
world
had
come
thither."
on the
required
nearly
three
centuries
were still to be
the
fourteenth
century,
preserved
been
furnished
as
litter
Queen
of
then
Europe. The representation
occasions
is
annexed.
is
obscure. In this char-
beside him,
applie to a
became applied
it.
The
wheel,
been
caused
by
the
is
reported
which
to
whose
labors
we
are
was
as
late
as
under
known. These carriages
to
Diana
de
as
a
travelling
members
of
this
Kingdome,
&c.
London
much cheaper."
Ancient Twin
—
some-
duties
connected
be used
Parisian
hackmeh,
many
other
cities.
'
of this period
Two
ponderous
wooden
reaches,
half, while the hind
inside body linings are
same
kind
of
material.
models
of
bid
a
kind
worthy the
front-pillars,
and
a
twelve-spoked
lined with tapestry, completes
and
ner. The
Flemish manufacture,
which protrudes
the
carriage
other stuff.
covered
up
over with leather
These have no doors, only two openings at the sides,
which are closed
c,f,
Francs
CoitBii,i.ABD.
 
covered
as in our ordinary
and two more on the hind
seat.
and may be lifted
by bolts
the
body
top
[roof]
two
dimensions
may
be
changed
; these
had
the
and
in
common
persons,
and
so
the
lady had to wait for another disohUger in order to pursue
her
journey.
The
chapter),
as
the
a
postilion
horizontal,
so
the
been
con-
two poles and
few alterations,
the front and seated
from lit, a
persons riding in them rather reclined than sat ; still, this
origin of the
This Is
ancient
and
modern
usages.
ought to
be as
correct and
it is for the glory of our age and the
future to
to
the
reputation
forty
impossible
for
the
hus-
bands
coaches,
carriage,
glass
doors
have been
vehicle
was
made
many
times
Englishman
has
done,
and
straight
line,
the
still
in
preservation
with
heavy, the body, as a rule, being seven feet long
at the bottom,
on
the
illustration,
place
of
however,
is a fine
finished
There are iron reaches
The
last
at
the
top,
supports
the
dickey-seat,
which
is
furnished
added
for
the
front and
a
half
feet
hiffh.
The
hubs,
spokes,
and
for
Society
the
seat
velocipede
is
nowhere !
Carriages
when
PI.
XXII,
Fig.
1.
MOMOCYCLE.
finding
out
lady on
the road, became so fascinated with her charms that he
invited
her
to be misunderstood. A
drive on,
1
There
the
are
invention,
pleasure-riding.
As,
however,
in his
and is
making
calls'
or
engaged
in
shopping,
no
been
invented.
Another
French
vehicles
carriage fifteen miimtes, fif-
; and for five-seat,
the same time, twenty sous, with proportional rates for longer time.
The
been
enjjased
before
tarifl".
two, paid
carriage.
The
coachmen
were
him
everything with
them."
A
favorite
drive
iu
Paris
is
a
in
1860 :
destrojang
the
tout
ensemble
himself a
appearance of perfect
size, as high as
by Englishmen
much influ-
back
quarters
'
old plan.
These vehi-
the French &pompe,
asked.
The
following
facts
Britain
of the
other
a
much
been
and
a
Booke,
by JEdw : Aide,
the
Thiefe
Aker,"
he
died
Martin's-in-the-Fields,
the
vicinity of Dover
eighty
thou-
sand
Roman
"crafty foxes."
Giles,
the translator of Gildas, assures us that "bold lions" is a
much more
appropriate appellation,
had it
her people. (Tacit.,
survive
indignity
Claudius
had
an
esseda
In
a
"Treatise
on the Study of Antiquities," by Mr. Pownall, it is said
that
:
ita
exornaro,
similque
erat, hec in
vehiculis atteri, cultus
objection
in
five and a half
the
art
of
'
1016. In the
D.
865,
soci4 relicts
remanaret." (See
this alone is
battle-fields.
notice and
were exhibited
all the
Celtic tribes
discussing
for a bed
of
colonization
in the
'
palace-
it
etymology
to
establish
the
former.
The
writer,
in
of
a
visit
Maximilian,
and
the
kings
of
Hungary,
Bohemia,
and
not remember
of
At the
head of
dew
Femina
feminea
sua
Covinant
called the
Tyler's
rebellion,
which
happened
whirlicote
of
old
clause that
in fashion.
for
in
each
side,
tive of the
nothing
more
Probably
it is thus
1632;
also,
in
some
passages
waynes.
Anne
Boleyn
when
coaches for her
XX,
p.
446),
says,
"The
the
English
doubtful. In
this
land
To
qu'ils avoient laisse xxxij
a
lours
vuides graches,
les recognoistre.
where a
servant."
The
above
engraving
first
coach
"
were
supplied
with
curtains,
which
himself
in
this
sort,
grateful
to
your
Majesty
other
you were lately pleased to send unto liira for liis
falconer."
i
In
coaches
were
English
and
French
coaches
any
unless
seem that
remembered as one
be
seen
divers
admiration of the
they
debtors,
the
(and he
"
observing
that
lege to
college to
choice
at
Death
;
"groome" a blow
see each groome
roome.
That
were
not
hide ?
heretofore
general
calling."
One
to draw
an
vehicle
entitled to the name of a stage-c ach was ever
run in
rate for
their inns,
covered wagons,
in which
but
come
very
late
to
their
inns,
condition
for
shillings a day for
or
else
give
grass
pomp so far as to drive six liorses
before
a great novelty, and imputed to him as a masterly
pride."
the
dignity
and
footed leasts are
Cart is
Figure
wheeles
demonstrated vnto vs, that as much as Men are superior
to
Beasts,
so
much
are
honest
is
Ruine)
Ergo, the
that
preferred
inso-
lency
and
uarieties of Laces, facings,
if the Carman's horse be melanchoUy or dull with hard
and
heauy
fit
Oammoth,
whistles, but
all musicke
out a
a
stewed
Pruine.
"For
(what
from?
diebus
illis
[in
other
days]
hath
relieued
and
their
Knight
(an
the
world
was
but
haue an
I should
Carroches, who
dome, insomuch that I cannot
buy
vnder
an
be vnder
infinite
enforced to
goe barefooted
some their feete
scorne of
name
of
a
Coach
Drake,
and Willoughby, with
times
apparelled
which
only thus cumbersome
by their standing still, and
damming the
streetes and
dores
the
streetes
as my Lord Maior is
highly
to
Canvis it
the right Kue,
be
one
a Coach
by
began
to
their
thinke myselfe
will
con-
an
Infidel,
or
their edifying,
vse
in
the right hand, and
willingly makes men forget to goe vpright naturally.
"The order of Knighthood is booth of great Antiquity and very
honorable,
yet
sword laid
Generall in the field, although
the blow
with the
meanes
goe
and finest
; for
the
very
mending
of
the
Harnesse,
a
diligence
in
matching
the
mothers doe
these women
your
Coach-horses
there
is
another
as
streets
our owne
the truth
be
stolne
a
Manchet
and the
their tailes) as
if the deuill
had beene in
their course
stop a gap, of the
Kaues one may make a Ladder
for
Whirry
olde
lustice)
paire
that was
deceiue
rotten
Boxe if it
uailed,
many yeeres
lading are
the dirt,
in their
Hel-cart,i at
fall
into
such'mischieuous
to
Gonstantino-
ple,
kinde of
joynt,
as
the
is
hereby
except they
shall
constantly
keep
'
The term "hackney," which formerly was applied to a horse let for
hire, is
hacknai ;
conveyance of casual
they came to
Paris
by
business,
by
the
water-side.
devotion,
In
in
1631,
and
used
by
annoyed
the number of
energies
care
:
and
volume among other songs
composition.
with
"
;
are
regulation
as
burly
square-sett
fellow,
downe
the
brest,
ders
the
one
a
French
boy,
the
other
Irish,
both
lour'd,
guilded,
or
painted,
How
"Hence
it
to London,
find many families
and
Sedan
you
in the livery
pre-eminence of Paris and
London
being
concerned
in
a narrow
education to
seperate
the
divide
gov-
necessary
to
cease
persuading
you,
who
pleased
remarks
not
"
continues: "I have
barrels
vsed," besides other
very fashionable for
crescent,
etc.,
on
her
forehead.
The
author
of
stands
ready
Coach,
and
of
New
England,
been abused
by some
thousand
petition against
and Charles II coaches
the first day
at present I can call
to mind,
the year
ter,
and
published
may stop it,
and secure all
found it
coachman
the
horse,"
which
horse grew
The
earliest
and
so
ran
her
head
through
and hackneys in
time.
— supposed
to
high-sovmding
title
like
those
seen
necessary,
and
besides
lessen
his
and
unable
lodge
"
can slip
to any
place where
if within twenty
a way
many
journeys
yearly,
they
have
places to
hundred
horses
setting
happen to lose so many yearly of t ose that
are bred, as
apprentices,
whereby
their
in a
servants were with them,
on
and
spurs,
and
cloaks,
the
king-
dom
was
end
or
lay
gown, with a sash,
they
they
were
what
other
fogs,
. . . often
brought
into
into
a
young
have their
a
good
their
surly,
dogged,
cursing,
ill-natured
coachman
the
road,
fit
the coachmen
are asrreed
travel,
it
quality,
as
This traval hath
soe indisposed mee
in
y^
coatch."
Orkneys until
of Somerset
knew
the
holes
and
of
conveyance
long
cumbrous
Frenchman who
Lane,
London.
Since
then
new
arms
indicated
in
the
titles.
drawn by
studded
or.
philosopher Boyle, in 1682
: "As fast as this
this soft seat do almost
as much invite
"
The hasty wheels strike fire out of the flints they
happen to run
my
bones
themselves
now I am seated above their reach,
serves
but
to
carry
be
Hooge, in
as
makino'
his
entry
into
the
royal
palace
at
Whitehall
in
provided.
lines than
the former.
likewise
the
thorough-braces
on
delineated
to
the
frame-work.
as Fairholt
beauty
of
the
decorations
Deceased," in which
the moi-e it
it if our good
whereby
we
were
enabled
park
about
alike
impassable.
We
to
receive
the
passenger
and closing
311
carries
tax,
it
should
certainly
be
upon
coaches
and
chairs
public, I
but their
into the service
first place, to
and
travel
in.
The
coachman
furnished
stateli-
ness
"
the
great
man
himself,
Marlboroiigh,
carry-
ing
the
and left him as
the
Queen
loved, though
the
masculine-
his interests
hand,
principles.
common
cartmen
;
very clumsy,
were,
in
the
strictest
sense,
"heirlooms,"
the
family,
and
Hooper, Esq.,
very
about
satirized
carriages,
and
were
even
fashionable
the Lady Harley
footmen
being
engaged
his lordship
or designedly
;
Beaus then
democratic
caste,
trimmed
he is represented
return from
on a
daughter of Philip IV,
car-
quarters of the body. This coach
appears
to
hammer-cloth
first introduced
were accustomed to travel
memorable year the
the
admiration
full
of
passengers
or
any
axle, its
and as easy,
English
single-horse
stage-coaches were
of
ornament
with
black,
panels, in
the upper tier of which were four oval windows, with
heavy
red
wooden
frames,
dis-
language.
the
within
the
his knee,
varnished
seat,
sides,
it
was
however, never great
be frequently
the
picture
of
a
stage-coach
in his
print of
ludicrously
depicts.
Instead
English
Staoe-coach,
1756.
Westminster
for
approval.
This
to his
in the
in England is said to have been constructed in Queen
Street, Lincoln's
mail-coaches.
:
—
the city arms,
Cipriani
Plenty
; in
a
small
Mercury
shield,
with
we read
better
quality
stage-coaches,
wherein
we
from
only
shilling
miles in
;
^
was introduced
sometimes
set
all
London
day,
yeai's.
over
see.'
by
The
tails
of
all
with some
and their mode
of life inclines
important
jesting;
otherwise
periwig.
A
ladder
is
procured,
top of the
the
stables
to
use
estimated
which public
Sunday.
car-
riages
called
for
were
and
the
same
signal
to
make
them
mend
the
of the last
depth; wagons
predicament,
and
required
twenty
fastened
to
the
passage,
other
traveling
hackney-coaches,
 
stated
allowance
for
persons
on
suit with
of the
or mistress
This is a
of Moore
in 1770
embryo
seven
persons
with
inches
This improvement would not only render
the coach
less liable
passengers. This
become much
following information,
1775,
where
we
machines, and diligences,
the
same,
into
the
mechanical
operations
of
a
coned
wheel
; suf-
fice
"
for the introduction
regardless as
of
the
ground.
of the
wheels, it
which
will
certainly
be
a
copy
of
which
is
given
below,
Over-
of the
which,
third
part
of
the
can go little further
opposed, and still
harness-makers,
professed
builder
is
necessary,
and
in
some
measure
to
what
To,^N
cost £3
shown
in
way,
 
half ditto
the doors
made
light
and
riding
Avas
a
long
time
impose
fatigue him and impede the
traveling thereby, unless the poor animal
is scourged to exertion
keep
pace
with
for the driver
fatigue,
both
to
man
and
for
public
conveyance
wheel-hoops
; a
plated
row of
four-inch lace,
one bottom
row of
one person can sit
incom-
moded
previous
they
contribute
more
prefer
low
phaetons,
the
infirm,
they
danger, without
phaetons
are
fre-
ponies,
; a
for the
and
crane-neck,
and
to
break.
Judging
from
appearances,
of
their
being
hung
families
may
be
formed
rails
only
were
lined
and
supplied
in its place
to buttons. A
to some
nearly
all
being
varieties
one
occasional purposes
frequently
The proper
others,
with
very different.
extremely
but the
is suspended
in a fork on each horse's back.
In
spite
as to
that the
ele-
the next
constructing,
gig, and
B,
riage
has
to
swell
the
expense
and
increase
the
was
was still
more strikingly
to the
meeting
patent-rimmed.
We
patent-x"immed
eight
be expected
to last."
year appears
was principally confined to
finished to suit his taste
in
accident) and
years, the costs
return
of
the
carriage
where
whose "tricks in
three years
a person
in fitting
is chiefly
substance
convenience
in
repositories,
now
established
there
for the same reason as the brokers, as they may
there
vend
preference
to act with
the
interest
to
some
another
more
"
as the fashion did not change
more
than
once
difficult to decide the
age of a carriage,
man kept,
The
reduction
of
these
taxes
twenty-
five
had
run
countiy,
cost
£202,
the whole not much
were
superseded
by
the
jaunting-car,
and
the
body
when the horses were perfect and the harness gorgeous and
well varnished."
have only
There
is
in
general
time was
jaunting-cars
to
mance
surroundings
he
finds
on
Cars
in
twitching
the
mouth
of
he
should
chance
he perches
himself, very
much at
ease, cross-
legged on
to the other
One Bianconi, recently
all built upon
the
most
abominable
caution
is
necessary
to
prevent
those
them.
for
did.
Hence
1805 obtained
coaches,
char-
have an
in the front part of the sociable on page 344,
and
plus
ultra
two-wheeled
carriages,
causing
them
quite
in
receive
an
iron
shaft
or
the
of the apparatus
the
well
as
is secured to
favorable
position
for
eifective
illumination,
journey into the country
and
trunk
for
baggage.
Another
part
"Winchelsea,
extends the body so
being
placed
outside
and
out
sleeper. This and the
at
night.
An
the
rail.
On
dark
winter
night,
he
more
kites
which purpose
the passenger,
whisky,
length, the front panel can be
taken
away,
into
a
boot
called
Esq., in
the
sides
which
are
that
bovines
ducing like
what
follows.
to
on his
in
the
condemnation
of
of
conveyance,
inaugurated
men, feeling
complete was
irons
kept
which
reason
shafts were
usually of
springs were long and
dogs, and
about the time
a
close
carriage,
if
the
curtains
sit-
ting
bolt
upright
in
would
more
befittingly
best seat
in the
fashion
and
"
better
provided
with
carriages
than
any
would-be
who,
most perfect
the
are
still
pro-
duced
connected
that has
since borne
England.
This
carriage,
the
passen-
gers
and
the
duke
adopted. In
1813 there
on the streets of
horse, besides
as
a
mode
addition,
small
wheels
light
rably adapted to the
to convey the greatest num-
ber of persons," in which it is not to be expected
that
coach-makers
in
England
3,22;i
the timber of which,
cane-work,
four
wheels.
such is the fact, and Ave as historians
must
ality.
gracious
sovereign.
The
changes
in
construction,
state."
The
favor-
reduction
in
weight,
the
of being given
family
carriages,
either
for
more
open
with
whom
and
her
Majesty
it
always
being
an
expensive
great change in the construction of nearly all C-spring carriages
now
built,
and
the
greater
recommendation
be paid
hard
lot
are
such
as
have
been
adopt
this
as
a
last
resource.
For
the
most
part,
night
cabs
forty-eight
to
our
surprise,
and mentions
cab, and
she summons
cabman
sees
that
lady
one
of
the
"shelters."
is
said,
improvements
The
largest
export
trade
of
of
their
own
attractiveness
for
beholders,
nor
in
the
the
best
appointed
riages
be
which
good
upon
the
teristic
existence.
throughout
our
colo-
their
prevalent
ideas
little island
have, either
by force
seen
files
of
carriages,
that on
as
the
Russian
droschke
may
be
seen
clustered
a measure
them
droschkes,
all
running
—
a
foot
of
your
passing horse, and this isdiine
so often that your outside garment soon
looks
like
have no
ever enjoyed."
horse serves to keep
high.
colors,
consisting
of
hard
wood,
play. A
springs, in which
sense'he
enjoys
off
into
the
abyss
below.
— we should
to
found
to
or
journeys,
as it has neither covering
nor
springs.
of
little
in a
Duchess of
Lothbingen's Coacr,
labors
ond letter
to Governor
is,
that
upon
accommodation,
; to
whom,
country, whose usefulness in
Cromwell,
that
of Mexico to a lady,
his sister, which he
Boston in 1646.
scarcity of
'
chaises,
etc.,
condition
of
the
road
William
in
it,
a
kept in all the
(Gordon),
Jonathan
Dickinson,
Logan,
of
Stenton,
in
stage
hut
this Paper to come
same, several have been carry'd
off by
City
of
1709 the posts which stood along the walks "of the
Broadway"
unsightly, and no longer eligible for
tying horses. It was
Governor
Besides
this
Connecticut
or
the first coach
1738
a dependency of
skilled
work-
consequently both
William
Shippen,
close
ribbed,
dark
chestnut,
price.
I
much
of
had encountered
16,
Wednesday night
beauty,
more than a
From Mear's "Picture
wheeled
thirty-seven
was
Death of the
and his shallop,
place
at Amboy com-
manded by Aaron
I
shall
by this time is
best judges of our stages and their advantages, only shall
just
note
the
last
tide
are always
the
"the post
Hook every
till the 1st
again perform it
only
twice
a
and
George, in
Morning.
The
goods as
of a Coach,
Favor
of
hacks
rae
that
although
horse
chair,
proud.
She
remembered
old
Richard
was
about
twenty
(1760),
Charles
him from England. This and Judge William Allen's were the
only
ones
she
hundred years
thoroughfares
leading
out
of
country-seat
of
those represented in
been
—
to the
it
remained
Bowling
a
bonfire
was
made
of
and
devil
were
single-horse
chair,
two
sleighs,
and
were the
On
arrival
subscribers,
all
Masters
of
vessels
are
for-
eighteen chariots
with such
library,
came to
in five
chaflf, and yet a
Richard Penn,
being
precious
bur-
whom
we
are
indebted
about in, the
(1786)
players,
and
anticipating
the
inevitable
sneer
about
an
impertinent
sledge, dating
—
succeeding years of
respectively
by
Broadway,
before
that
thoroughfare
was
in the
same building.
It will
ship
as
too,
that
of mechanical
society acted
Federal Constitution,
stage,
busily
at
work.
a finished
coach, with other hands at the work-bench. At the door a
vessel
was
represented
as
laying
expor-
tation
the ship
the nine
coach-harness
Liberty
Fame
blowing
motto,
a
arms,
and
men bringing
never since been
the
entire
press
managers
of
some
Sanitary
Fairs
have
privilege
of
sitting
hands of
as near
considered
it
Congress,
of luxury,
thirty-five
chariots,
twenty-two
phaetons,
eighty
hundred
and twenty chairs and sulkies, showing that in about twenty years
they
average thirty
taking
about
two
to
above
is
only
we
in America is said to have been made by a
man named White,
English chariot,
creditable
to
the
builder.
price in material and excessive
cost
of
wages.
A
plain
in the
the
fact
the full
and
teen
had
of
the
journey
between
was
simplest
pretensions,
took
patterns
possible.
Mr.
Canfield
afterwards
thought
extensive
business
Three years after he lived at No. 6 Fair Street.
It is not until
tory, from
occasion to
Street,
were the names of the coach-makers then in business. Charles
Warner,
A. Peel was
described,
seat,
made
one Williams, from
celebrated Grant
pauper, and died in
afterwards,
be
them to
ride in
of
both
distant
has
made
a
trip
In
four
minutes,
and
and
pliment
west
The
run
went only once
of
sad-
dle-bags,
until
author from Joel
Munsell, Esq., of
fifty
years
for
slower.
Avith
the
body,
River
steam-
the
New
York
Central
Eailroad,
of the
cracking his jokes,
in stages
upon the
great Genesee
will remember
Phin. Mapes
'
railroads
Eecently a
commenced to lay
and
(in
1827)
Cornelius
P.
Lawrence, was sent for the vehicle, and after much parley
he suc-
it
to
the
in the
to have turned his
and
Mexican
markets,
the city,
C.
P.
of Ti'inity
together.
part
the establishment of carriage
bought the
vamoosed
; McChesney
A
where from 1825 to 1830
the manufacture of carriages was chiefly
done,
and
afterwards
shipped
to
New
York.
Especially
was
this
since set in
tropolis.
The
up
customers by
to
give
We
He
was
accustomed
to
make
made
out
below, constructed
with doors
ered
build
guide,
being
"away
up
toAvn."
second
hack
was
the
body,
Stephenson,
Esq.
riages
was,
kind of
entite
revolution
in
the
construction
of
1831
the
coaches, etc., into
One
become
of citizens ridina: in
everything
which
pay
by
Mr.
conveyance of
the abuses above
Company, having
indebted for
our illustration,
that
he
the doors
had
any
dwindled
repairing,
a ready
sale, undertook
Street.
His
success
induced
others
to
engage
of
work
obtain a price
still
the finest in the
About the same
through the middle
the modern
are
shafts attached
to the
C.
Parker
for
the
body.
The
body
itself
outside
by
taken the
of
told by Mr. Smith :
ordered
a
a frac-
tious horse
had run
broken
it,
adding that he had not time to make one then. This, how-
ever,
was
for the purpose of obtaining a
pattern from
tion bears
the cession of
success of
is
posterity.
1850,
Edward
therein, and desire to secure by let-
ters-patent,
is
the
bination with the
turned
principle,
by
which
operation
they
placed
for the purpose set forth." A brief comparison will answer
to prove
and would
invention, and
desire to
and the
thereto, for the
space than by
above
which
ments on
proved
ex-
ing on the axle
phelps's
kinc-bolt.
sistent
patentee
individual, which was
Thus
legal
destroy
satis-
fied
with
an
elliptic
are
tained for
in
Westchester
York. This vehicle, having
front, to
gers
It has
been estimated
turnouts have
and
other
summer
Add
to
these
This same
put
down
has
to
a
as
termed
this
country
as
proprietors
of
stage-coaches
and
other
taxes laid on carriages
trade,
other
markets
had
been
found
Eockaway,
sun
and
the octors have used
either when
til something better than the
phae-
pills
and
our
illus-
tration
chaise, with
wheels five
feet in
ciKortAB-FiioHT conre.
constructed. Coupes
ance. The scroll platform-spring
when shaped
aristocratic
in
conformity
with
light-
ness,
and
sup-
heirs
hold
are indebted
in
the
United
extensive
manufacture
of
axles,
are
now
state by many
con-
is
producing.
more
different firms. These,
and finish,
occupied
carriages could
not enter
than
those
pleasure, is
plates,
it
(1875)
in
Paris,
where
several duplicates
of
this
drawing. . . . The
with
"
sent to the
four more
tan-
dem
Sfirensen
his ingenuity as
he has in
a
fashion, it follows
that
he has to work to that particular style which his customer orders,
and
altering
its
twenty
and attendance
description may be acceptable. With the
furniture complete,
the inside, eight on
To reach
the top
books, hats,
 
rate,
it
sington,
in
1873,
where
we
saw,
under
more
favorable
circumstances,
a
greater
variety
and
number
in
for which they may
but a comparatively
American carriages, not
the
clature.
several rows,
and a side-bar
previously
been
made.
The
hinged
thereto,
disposed
among the
fancy on
last carriage
are likewise
elliptical and two
received
an undertaker in Wash-
to
in Europe and
both Eng-
In
on
the
other
side,
accepted
European
styles,
whether
in
aiming
perpetually
•
by
class
of
equipages
there
is
frequently
an
amount
of
the
foreign
turers, being on the
spot, or at least but k short distance ofi", and having
comparatively light
ex-
hibited
age quality;
interest
development
out
take
of
mings,
of various
styles, which
makes easy
stock
place of hand
Delancey
Kane,
an
enterprising
Englishman,
by
between
New
York
City and Pelham Bridge. It was started from the Hotel Brunswick,
May
1,
1876,
with
booked. From the
was
mani-
fested
by
the
Queen's
Berliner,
in
Cluny
;
191,
192.
287
125.
Jack-of-all-trades,
Palanquin, Indian,
Papyrus deeds,
19.
Pegge,
51
318.
Scroll-spring
Shakespeare,
as
holder
Sulky,
American;
437,
453
;
manufacturer or
—
"I consider
account
be
without
it
of
all coachmakers, not only in his native country but in Europe, for the
valuable
and
record.
interest the
art, and
of
should be found in the office
or library of
who do
not should
was
near
marks
Being a
your work
may be classed among
and fine
its history
more
correct
and
treatise
inember
prize at
full
those
which
Homeric
heroes
probably
the contemporaries of
—
highly amusing as well as instructive, and
will
not
fail
to
the title itself
Any one who
work
upon
the
subject."
York Coachmaker's
Inferred that he
is it
entertaining, but
his
steed
flies
on
iu
rushing
spoke
fire- devouring, scampers
Taylor, niechajicall waterman,'
could
luggage,
on
His.
Majesty's
enough
topsy-turvied
and
present to
the remotest ends
utter
extinction."