. The science of railways . ^ many dangers, might to-day be followedby a child safely and with little cost of time ormoney. Such is the progress that has been this progress has neither been certain norsteady. There have been long periods in wdiichno advance was made, while the labors of cen-turies have frequentlybeen lost by the mis-haps of an hour. In the phraseology oftravel, land carriagehas, curiously enough,adopted much of thenomenclature of nauti-cal life. This wouldseem to show that thelatter antedated theother. In this connec-tion we know, more-over, that many cen-turies after
. The science of railways . ^ many dangers, might to-day be followedby a child safely and with little cost of time ormoney. Such is the progress that has been this progress has neither been certain norsteady. There have been long periods in wdiichno advance was made, while the labors of cen-turies have frequentlybeen lost by the mis-haps of an hour. In the phraseology oftravel, land carriagehas, curiously enough,adopted much of thenomenclature of nauti-cal life. This wouldseem to show that thelatter antedated theother. In this connec-tion we know, more-over, that many cen-turies after the denizensof Shumir and the East-ern Mediterranean wereaccustomed to makelong and successful voy-ages by water, it wasstill unsafe to travel byland except in strongdetachments. Woman, as already stated, was the first was before the domestication of wild ani-. 102 ORIGIX AXD EVOLUTIOX ma is. In some countries the load was carriedupon the head, in others upon the shoulders, inothers strapped upon the back. Herodotus saysthat the men of Egypt carried their loads ontheir heads, while the women carried them upontheir shoulders. The chariot is mentioned invery remote times. Sharrukin, King of Agade,in the records he has left of his campaign to thesea of the setting sun, fifty-seven hundred yearsago, speaks exultingly of having ridden in myr-iads of bronze chariots. This reference wouldseem to indicate that it was something new-something to boast of. But later discoveries arelikely to prove this untrue, as the semi-civiliza-tion of the Chaldeans dated back to a period farmore remote than the time of Sharrukin. In the accountswe have of the ac-coutrements of warin ancient times,and of the spoilscaptured from ene-mies overthrown,the chariot occu-pies, in every in-stance, a conspicu-ous place. In theinvasion of Syriaby the Egyptians,thii-ty-five hun
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