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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria

CHAPTER VII
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They had remarkably broad felloes, thin and delicate spokes, and small or moderate sized axels.

[PLATE LXXXIX.Fig.

2], and [PLATE XC., Figs.

1, 2.] The number of the spokes was either six or eight.

The felloes appear to have been formed of three distinct circles of wood, the middle one being the thinnest, and the outer one far the thickest of the three.


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