The whole road indeed was lit up from the fall of the evening to the dispersion of the morning mist with a brilliancy nearly equal to that of daylight.

As I dared not travel at a greater rate than twenty-five miles per hour--my experience, though it enabled me to manage the carriage with sufficient skill, not giving me confidence to push it to its greatest speed--the journey must occupy several days.

We had, therefore, to rest at the stations provided by public authority for travellers undertaking such long land journeys.

These are built like ordinary Martial houses, save that in lieu of peristyle or interior garden is an open square planted with shrubs and merely large enough to afford light to the inner rooms.

The chambers also are very much smaller than those of good private houses.