horses racing against four horses in the 

 coach I was in : in a narrow place, the 

 \vaggoner came up to the coach with his 

 horses and waggon, and drove the horses 

 that drawed the coach off the road ; and the 

 wheels ran upon the side of a bank, and up- 

 set the coach. The waggoner rode laughing 

 away : but there is not that respect paid by 

 waggoners to the public coaches in America, 

 as there- is in England. The mail coach is 

 generally compelled to give way to the 

 waggon, although I knew no business con*, 

 ducted with greater propriety in America 

 than the stage coaches ; and the horses in 

 general are the best in the country, and in 

 very great condition travel from four to 

 five miles an hour, when the roads are what 

 is termed good ; in the winter, in some 

 parts, not more than one mile an hour ; and an 

 English coachman would not attempt to 

 drive a coach on such roads, in great snows, 

 through woods, to escape bad holes in the 

 roads, stumps of trees, &c. which cannot be 

 seen on account of the snow covering them. 

 The coach is a sort of waggon on springs. 



