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    Coach Driving - Carriages
    Coach Driving - Carriages
    Coach Driving - Carriages
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    Coach Driving - Carriages

    By Alfred E. T. Watson

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 8, 2016
    ISBN9781473352605
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      Coach Driving - Carriages - Alfred E. T. Watson

      CHAPTER II.¹

      CARRIAGES

      BY ALFRED E. T. WATSON.

      THE thing which chiefly puzzled Charles Darwin in his researches and speculations with regard to the development of species was the evolution of the eye. He could not even guess plausibly how the eye was generated; and what perplexes the inquirer into the subject of the origin of carriages is the question when the wheel originally came into existence. When first horses were domesticated and pressed into the service of man, superseding, as there is reason to suppose, the use first of oxen and then of asses, the man doubtless put what he wanted to be carried on his horse’s back, fastening it there as best he could. But some keen observer, as we must suppose, watching his horse thus burdened, hit on the idea that a more convenient method might be adopted, and the horse’s strength better utilised. He had, in fact, evolved the earliest notion of the carriage.

      His mode of procedure was to take a couple of poles and so fasten them round the horse’s neck that they dragged on the ground behind his heels, and on these poles he placed, and in some way or other fastened so that it would not fall off, what he wanted to carry. We can, of course, only imagine dimly the sensation which was caused when the proud inventor first exhibited his carriage—for that this was the original carriage seems to be proved by the circumstances that a similar contrivance is still in use among the red men of America. For the sake of contrast let us step over a few thousands of years and glance from the earliest carriage to the latest.

      The first carriage.

      We are apt to consider these the days of marvellous inventions, but we cannot by any possibility realise the magnitude and brilliance of the idea of the first wheel. There is nothing to guide us even to about the century when by degrees some man of active mind first began to perceive that improvements in carriage-building—something more convenient and serviceable than these dragging poles, that is to say—were within the bounds of possibility. If the poles could be raised to the horizontal it would be something. Articles would not fall off; a man might sit comfortably and rest himself when he was tired of walking by the horse’s side. Then some mighty genius in a flash of vivid imagination devised the wheel. His name, even his country, has been lost in the mist of ages, though it should rank on a level with the discoveries of gunpowder and of the electric telegraph. We can only speculate upon his proceedings when the splendid conception struck him, but it seems very likely that he cut down a tree, chopped two slices or circles of wood from the trunk, and—probably sat down overwhelmed by the evident fact that there was still a vast deal to be done; for how were his round pieces of wood to be so fastened that they would turn? If the reader cares to amuse himself by following out these fancies, he may speculate as to whether

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