The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 vs The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
119,502words between them — 7h 58m of it
The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 is longer — 769,749 words against 650,247 for The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806, a difference of 119,502 words or about 7h 58m of extra reading. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 is the harder read, at grade 10 against 5.3.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 | The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue, marquis de | Lewis, Meriwether |
| Words | 769,749 | 650,247 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 51h 19m | 43h 21m |
| Unique words | 25,652 | 20,509 |
| Sentences | 76,158 | 26,085 |
| Average sentence length | 10.1 words | 24.9 words |
| Reading grade | 5.3 | 10 |
| Reading ease | 74.8 | 67.8 |
| Long words | 9.8% | 6.8% |
Highlighted cells are the larger figure — except reading ease, where higher means easier.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions, same counting rule·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both texts are counted the same way, from the same source, with Gutenberg's header and licence footer struck first.
- The gap is stated in words and then in time at 250 words a minute — the rate is printed because a duration without one cannot be checked.
- Difficulty is compared on Flesch–Kincaid grade, which reads sentence and word length only. It cannot see irony or dialect, so treat it as a measure of surface, not of effort.
gap = |769,749 − 650,247| = 119,502 words 119,502 ÷ 250 wpm = 7h 58m of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 or The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806?
The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 is longer — 769,749 words against 650,247 for The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806, a difference of 119,502 words or about 7h 58m of extra reading. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 is the harder read, at grade 10 against 5.3.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 75883 and no. 8419 — and from no other source. Neither book’s text is set on this site.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·US public domain·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Word counts and reading levels are computed from a specific public-domain edition and will differ from other editions and from other counting methods — see the method page.
