Dragaera

started rereading _TPotD_

Wed Jul 16 17:37:06 PDT 2003

At 11:40 PM 7/15/2003 +0100, Mark Tiller wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Brust [mailto:skzb at dreamcafe.com]
>Sent: 15 July 2003 03:34
>To: Iain E. Davis; 'lazarus'; 'Philip Hart'
>Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info
>Subject: RE: started rereading _TPotD_
>
> >Switching horses every twenty miles, under ideal conditions, with the right
>
> >sort of horse, eating in the saddle or not at all, and not sleeping, it is
> >possible to travel 500 miles in a 30 hour period...that is, it is possible
> >to average more than 16mph.
>
>Are you basing that on the Pony Express Figures?  I'm not doubting the
>accuracy, just curious about the source.

That was one source.  Another was the French systems of posts under 
Richelieu at certain periods.  And you can learn a lot about horses' top 
speeds and how long they can maintain them on the good ole' internet.