The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . x in the Greek chariot). The extreme length of the yoke is thirty-two and a halfinches, and as now arranged it is lashed to the nozzle of thepole and to a peg which pierces the pole just short of the the end of the curves there are bone studs. It consists ofa flatfish rod, tapering from about two and a half inches in thecentre to about one inch at the horns. It is not more than oneand a quarter inches thick vertically at any point. There aretwo Y-shaped objects at present hanging from the horns of theyoke ; their arms are pierced wit
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . x in the Greek chariot). The extreme length of the yoke is thirty-two and a halfinches, and as now arranged it is lashed to the nozzle of thepole and to a peg which pierces the pole just short of the the end of the curves there are bone studs. It consists ofa flatfish rod, tapering from about two and a half inches in thecentre to about one inch at the horns. It is not more than oneand a quarter inches thick vertically at any point. There aretwo Y-shaped objects at present hanging from the horns of theyoke ; their arms are pierced with holes, and the height of thewhole is seven inches, the width inside from hole to hole notbeing more than four inches, and the tail ends in a large roundbone stud one and a half inches in diameter. These have beentermed collar-pieces, but their size forbids their being so usedeven for very diminutive horses. The Egyptian chariots seen on the monuments had wheelsof four, six or eight spokes, though the six-spoked are the Ill] AND HISTORIC TIMES 225. 226 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. more common. It seems certain that the simple four-spokedwheel is earlier than those with six, eight, and twelve it is quite possible that the Florentine chariot is notstrictly Egyptian, it is very improbable that it is of northernorigin, for the chariot is entirely composed of wood joinedwith pegs or studs of bone, not a single scrap of metal ofany kind—copper, bronze, or iron—being used in its construc-tion. Now the Egyptians had been using copper from pre-dynastic times, and as at the time of the exodus, accordingto the Book of Joshua, the Canaanites had chariots of iron\ for the children of Joseph said. The hill is not enough for us ;and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valleyhave chariots of iron, and Judah^ could not drive out theinhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron,and as Jabin^, king of Canaan, had nine hundred chariotsof iron, and as
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