The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 249
2=« 5 Ancient picture of a Grecian Chariot. The Eoman, contending at the Olympic games withfive horses yoked abreast to his chariot, is given in theannexed cut. AVith the later Greeks, and with the Romans, chariots 236 MODERN VEHICLES. were chiefly used at the races of the Olympic games hGreece. … Ar.c:£:i: Bom an CL;.ri;-eer. Let us now revert to the condition and uses of modernvehicles, whether having two or more wheels. So long as a vehicle is moved on two wheels, the taskof turning round a corner, or in other ways altering thedirection in which the vehicle is moving, is no…
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