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 and Sentiments. 72> (Je fccowyrhta), who feems to have been the general manufa6turer of articles in this material. Alfric's Colloquy enumerates among the articles made by the fhoemaker, bridle-thongs {hridel-thwancgas), harneffes {geraeda), fpur-leathers {f pur-let Iter a), and halters {hce/fra). The form of the faddle is Ihown in the reprefentation of a horfe without a rider, given, from the manufcript latt quoted, in our cut No. 48. In the Anglo-Saxon church hiiiories, we meet with frequent inftances of perfons, who were unable to walk from licknefs or other caufe, being carried in carts or cars, but in moll cafes thefe feem to have been nothing but the common agricultural carts adapted temporarily to this ufage. A horfe-litter is 0.1 one occalion ufed for the fame purpofe. It is certain. No. 49. A Chariot. however, that the Anglo-Saxons had chariots for travelling. The ufual names of all vehicles of this kind were wc^gn or ween (from which, our waggon) and crat or crcet (which appears to be the origin of the Englilh word cart). Thefe two terms appear to have been ufed fynonymoully, for the words of the i8th Pfalm, hi in currilus, are tranllated in one Anglo-Saxon verfion by on urcnum, and in another by in erection. The Anglo-Saxon manufcripts give us various reprefentations of vehicles for travelling. The one reprefented in the cut No. 49 is taken from the Anglo-Saxon manufcript of Prudentius. It feems to have been a bar- baric "improvement" upon the Roman biga, and is not much unlike our T modern