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not be each way the same ; if it is all up-hill one 

 way, it will be all down-hill the other, and the time 

 lost in going up and that gained in coming down 

 must be properly apportioned to the other parts of 

 the road. 



Owing to the wide-spread fondness in the United 

 States, for trotting, an average team of American 

 horses will undoubtedly get over the ground at a 

 faster pace without galloping than the horses usu- 

 ally to be found in England or France, nevertheless 

 it may be desirable to arrange for one galloping- 

 stage on a road. Such a stage is usually very 

 attractive to the passengers, and on it horses may 

 be used which cannot, or will not, trot pleasantly. 

 This stage should be rather level ; it is hard work 

 for horses to gallop up-hill, and it may be timed 

 pretty fast, — thirteen or fourteen miles an hour, if 

 it is not more than six or seven miles long-. 



When Mr Tiffanv was working- the Brighton 

 road in 1873,- he had a galloping stage, from The 

 White Hart, at Reigate, to The George, at Crawley, 

 a distance of nine miles, which he did in thirty min- 

 utes, stopping once at a toll-gate. 



When a coach runs out and in the same day, 

 the arrangement of the teams is simple, since the 

 morning team out is the afternoon team back, the 

 last team having the time for rest at mid-day that 

 the coach has for lunch ; but if two coaches run in 

 opposite directions on the same hours, each the 

 whole length of the road, with a stop in the middle 



