98 Scat:> and Saddles. 



order to enable it to do 22^ to 2^^-^ English miles in a 

 day (of ten hours). If the burden consists of a rider 

 with its saddle, etc., instead of inert matter alone, the 

 horse can do the 24^% miles at a ivalk^ on 2l good road, 

 under the greater load of 90 kilog. (198^ English 

 pounds), and he will only require seven to eight hours. 

 It is, therefore, evident that it is the dead weight of the 

 pack which distresses the horse most ; and our own ex- 

 perience of jockeys carrying extra weight confirms this. 



Further, a man carrying a weight without the aid of 

 machinery, can transport 44 kilog. (97 lb. 10 oz. Eng- 

 lish weight) to a distance of 12^ English miles for a 

 day's work ; and on comparing this with the day's work 

 of the sumpter-horse, we find that the former is to the 

 latter in the proportion of i to 5. 



Now it is well understood that a foot-soldier, who has 

 to use his weapons, cannot carry anything like this 97 

 lb. 10 oz. English weight without converting him into 

 a mere " colporteur," the utmost admissible load being 

 22 kilog. (48 lb. 13 oz.), or one-tht7'd the mayt's own 

 average weight;'^ and as the saddle-horse can carry 90 

 kilog. 24^ miles only at a walk and on a good road, if 

 we take into consideration that some of the cavalry 

 horse's work must be done in trot and gallop, and much 

 of it on more or less difiicult ground, it is probable that 

 90 kilog. (198* English pounds) would be quite suffi- 

 cient load, although the average marches should not 

 exceed 15 English miles per diem, because the irregular 

 food and the exposure to the weather in bivouacs more 

 than compensates for the difference of distance. 



It seems, however, to be the practice of most cavalry 



* The Continental cavalries take 145 i^ lb., or 10 st. 5^ lb., as the 

 average weight. The British soldier must be much heavier than this, 

 probably \\\X.o 12 st. The British infantry soldier's kit at present 

 weighs exactly 11.67 kilog., leaving 10.33 l^i'og-* or about 23 lb., for 

 arms and ammunition. 



