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KU NOTICES OF THE REMAINS UF A ROMAN CHARIOT, The other portion of this Toulouse car seems to liave belonged to the hinder rim of the body, being rounded at top, and having a deep cleft at its under side, apparently for placing it thereon. It is 17 inches long, and terminated with a bas-relief representing a man on horseback attacked b^^ a lioness. This part, being of knobbed form, was pro- bably a handle whereby to mount into the car. The car of the Vatican has been figured by Visconti, at the end of the 5th folio volume of the Museo Pio-Clemen- tino ; its original and restored parts are carefully distin- guished in the explanatory text of that magnificent work. The fragments of the Cauino car have never, I beheve, been properly put together ; but a restoration dra^ving of it waa exhibited to the Scientific Congress at Genoa, and a descrip- tion of it published in the •' Transactions '"' of that congress.* The portions of the Perugian car have been described by Vermiglioli. and after him, with comments, by Inghirami, in the third volume of his work upon Etruscan Antiquities. I shall not speak of the cars and their appurtenances depicted on what are called Etruscan vases, most of these having met with a sufficiently full description ; but since such has not yet been pubHshed in regard to the cars repre- sented on some terra-cotta bas-reliefs, in the collection of the Chevalier Campana, at Rome, I will here transcribe a page from my note-book respecting them. The first that I shall notice has a body of the common curved form, but with a raihng around its front, for the better security of the driver, who seems to be a female. The wheels have only four spokes each, and are not higher than a man's leg. There is no appearance of traces to the horses, whence we may infer (provided always that these bas-reliefe give a faithful portraiture of real objects) that each outside horse drew only by a single trace, which passing between him and his central companion, and thus hidden from our view, was attached to the axle-tree ; the two central horses drawing by a yoke, as oxen do. The bitts are not in the horses' mouths, but are placed over their noses, like the cavessons still used in Italy, and all the reins are passed through one ring. The second on my list has a quadrangular body, with straight top, and four eight-spoked wheels, and was meant 1 Edit, in quarto form.