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Further, a country in which you are obliged to lay aside your
own carriage, and to substitute one which is smaller and less
convenient, cannot be said to be well adapted to the purpose of
travelling: yet this is the case in Sweden, where you must be
prepared to encounter this and many other disagreeable
circumstances.
The horses are small and weak, and their deficiency in size
and strength is to be made up by increase of number. This
multiplication is attended with a world of trouble. It is not in an
instant that so many horses can be put to the carriage; the chance
is increased that something or other will be wanting, something
wrong or out of order in the harness; there is also more
difficulty in bringing the horses to draw and keep pace with each
other. All these impediments taken together, occasion a
considerable loss of time. You are stopped at every turn, and the
expedition of travelling in Sweden, compared with that of France
and England, is found to be a mere fable. Among the seven or
eight horses that you are obliged to use, you have always to
apprehend that some one may turn out restive; and the bad
example of one will spoil all the rest. I travelled from Helsingburg
to Stockholm, by the way of Gothenburg, together with one of
my countrymen in a viennoise; but instead of three horses, as
in Germany, we were forced to increase our number, till it
amounted to seven. The horses were put to the carriage four
a-breast in the first line, and three in the fecond. They were
so little, lean, and feeble, that it seemed as if our vehicle were
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