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drawn by so many sheep. The more we increased their number,
the slower was our progress on the journey. It was the month
of September, and the roads, which were always either up-hill
or down hill, began to be injured by the rains. In going down
hill, we were afraid of causing death and destruction among our
poor feeble animals, which were impelled, without power of
resistance, by the weight of the carriage, and neither able to stop
nor to retard its motion: and when we went up hill, we often
were at a stand when it would have been most desirable to go
forward. The horses, as I have said, did not draw together. We
were attended by five or six peasants, who had each of them a
horse in our caravan; and deeming it good policy to whip up
their neighbour’s horses while they spared their own, they fell
often a quarrelling, and sometimes dealt about blows among
themselves as well as among each other’s horses. Such a
Babylonish confusion is not, I believe, to be met with in any other
part of the world. This at least I know, that I never
encountered any thing so embarrassing in any other country. One may
travel very comfortably in Sweden, they tell you, with the aid
of a man who knows how to manage and drive the horses; but
where is there a person in the world capable of conducting these
animals? They understand only the Swedish sounds; and the
dialect in which they are addressed by the peasants, is so original,
and consists in so extraordinary a motion or vibration of the lips,[1]
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