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lie landed at Jeddo, and there captured a Japanese
architect, whom, he afterwards employed to build a
church for the amusement of his children.
We drive on again through scenery of
continuous magnificence to Maristuen, where we dine
and rest for two hours, and finally reach Nystuen
with the same horses—distant about forty-eight
English miles from our starting place, with hilly
but well-made road throughout. This of course
saved us much of our customary trouble of
strapping and unstrapping luggage, though we stopped
about half an hour at each station to rest the
horses, besides the dinner halt of two hours.
It would be a considerable improvement in
Norwegian travelling if the stages could be made
longer, or some arrangements devised by which
carrioles could be hired for longer distances, and
only the horses changed at each station. I tried
to make such an arrangement at Stören for
carrioles right through to the end of the Romsdal, or
to Dombaas where the Dovrefjeld Romsdal road
branches from that of the Dovrefjeld; and tried
again here for the Fillefjeld, but in vain. The
people on the spot have no idea of how to carry
out such an arrangement; though it is sometimes
done through Mr. Bennett and the Christiania
Carriole Company. From what I learned on the
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