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Allowing for stoppages, the ordinary rate of
carriole progress is about four miles per hour.
Thus 48 miles is a good day’s journey. This was
my own independent estimate, afterwards confirmed
by one of the clergymen who officiated at the
service we attended at Bergen. He had a fair
opportunity of testing this severely, as, on a
previous visit, he and his friend Mr. Girdlestone had
volunteered to conduct a similar service at
Christiania on their way home from an excursion inland,
and at last were compelled to post continuously
day and night in order to get over the last 200
miles, and fulfil their engagement. Travelling
thus, and hurrying to the utmost, the 200 miles
was barely done within 48 hours.
T1 lis low rate is of course due to stoppages.
The ordinary pace of the horses, taking the average
of up hill, down hill, and levels, is about six miles
per hour. The average length of each stage is
rather more than eight miles, and the average
stoppage at each station exceeds half an hour, this
including the dinner-halt. By the ride-and-tie
system I propose this waiting time is spent afoot,
and the general rate of progress about the same
as that of the ordinary carriole driving.
September lsi.—The end of our holiday is now
approaching, and the working time for both pupils
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