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eighty miles per week, according to the pace, weight of load, 

 and condition of the road. Four-horse coaches, going at nine 

 miles per hour, and weighing about forty-five hundred weight, 

 usually require a horse for every two miles, counting the dis- 

 tance both ways. A coach running between two places forty 

 miles distant, employs about forty horses to take her away 

 and bring her back. 



In some cases the horses work every day, in others only 

 thrice a week, doing, however, double the work every day 

 they are out. When it can be so arranged, it is much better 

 for the horse to do eight miles every day, than to do sixteen 

 every second day. 



The work is not always quite regular. An able horse has 

 occasionally, perhaps once or twice a week, to perform a 

 double journey, one of the team being defective, able for only 

 half work, or during a few days unfit for any. 



The Glasgow and Paisley Coaches are horsed by Messrs. 

 Lyon and Walker. They run every hour. The distance is 

 very nearly eight miles, which is done in one hour by two 

 horses. When snow lies deep, three and sometimes four are 

 put to the coach. The horses stand for three minutes at half- 

 way. They work five days a week, doing sixteen miles each 

 day. They go and return, resting from one hour to six. 

 This is full work ; but in busy times the horses sometimes 

 run a double, or even treble journey, getting some indulgence 

 for a day or two afterward. Defective and unseasoned horses 

 do only half work. They may go out to-day and not return 

 till to-morrow. Some others, very good horses, but easily 

 injured, are so arranged that they shall have a longer time to 

 rest. They usually rest one or two hours after the first stage 

 before commencing the second ; but these delicate horses are 

 sent out in the morning, rested all day, and returned at night. 

 Many, with bad wind, bad appetite, or bad legs, are thus kept 

 at full work, who would be knocked up in a week, if required 

 to perform the second stage in an hour after completing the 

 first. Coaching-horses rarely receive any exercise on blank 

 days. They are kept in the stable, well-bedded, and encour- 

 aged to lie. 



Cartixg. — Cart-horses work from eight to ten hours every 

 day, except Sunday. The pace varies from two miles to 

 three and a half per hour. At long distances the draught 

 rarely exceeds thirty hundred weight, cart included. At 

 short distances it ranges from thirty to forty. Twenty-four 

 hundred weight, besides the cart, which weighs seven or 



