8 
TRAVELS 
drawn by fo many iheep. The more we increafed their number, 
the flower was our progrefs 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 caufmg death and deftrudion among our 
poor feeble animals, which were impelled, without power of re- 
flftance, by the weight of the carriage, and neither able to flop 
nor to retard its motion : and when we went up hill, we often 
were at a ftand when it would have been moft defirable to go 
forward. The horfes, as I have faid, did not draw together. We 
were attended by five or fix peafants, who had each of them a 
horfe in our caravan ; and deeming it good policy to whip up 
their neighbour’s horfes while they fpared their own, they fell 
often a quarrelling, and fometimes dealt about blows among 
themfelves as well as among each other’s horfes. Such a Baby- 
lonifh confuflon is not, I believe, to be met with in any other 
part of the w orld. This at leaft I know, that I never encoun¬ 
tered any thing fo embarrafling 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 horfes; but 
where is there a perfon in the world capable of conducting thefe 
animals ? They underftand only the Swedifli founds ; and the dia¬ 
led in which they are addrefled by the peafants, is fo original, 
and conflfts in fo extraordinary a motion or vibration of the lips,* 
* Tpfchruu. It is exactly by the fame found that the country people in Scot¬ 
land addrefs their horfes when they want them to Hop. 
that 
