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"A gentleman, to Edinburgh. Monday, 12th Nov., 

 1781. Paid, 2 Os. Od. A. G., Clerk": 



THE ABERDEEN AND EDINBURGH FLY, BY STONEHAVEN, 

 LAURENCEKIRK, BRECHIN, &c. 



SETS out from Mr. SMITH'S NEW INN, Aberdeen, every Monday, 

 Wednesday, and Friday, at 4 o'clock in the morning : arrives at Edin- 

 burgh next day to dinner ; and from Mr. ROBERTSON'S BLACK BULL 

 INN, Edinburgh, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 9 o'clock in 

 the morning ; arrives at Aberdeen next evening. The passengers both 

 ways lyat Mr. JOHN CAMPBELL'S, Innkeeper, Perth, the first night, from 

 whence the above Fly sets out every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 

 5 o'clock in the morning, and arrives at Edinburgh same day to dinner ; and 

 for Aberdeen every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, same hour, and 

 arrives at night. 



Tickets between Edinburgh and Perth 11s. ; ditto between Perth and 

 Aberdeen, 29s. ; uptakes on the road to pay 4d. per mile, each allowed 14 

 Ib. of luggage ; all above to pay 2d. halfpenny per Ib. for the whole distance, 

 or in proportion to the miles they go. 



Passengers at Edinburgh for Aberdeen must apply before 12 o'clock the 

 proceeding days of the Fly's setting out, as, after that hour, seats will be 

 given out to Perth, &c. if applied for. 



Tickets for Edinburgh must be taken out at Aberdeen, before 3 in the 

 Afternoon, of the day before the setting out of the Fly, as after that time, 

 tickets will be given out for any intermediate distance. 



Good convenience for boxes, parcels, &c. which will be regularly entered, 

 and delivered on arrival. Carriage of goods the whole distance, 2d. half- 

 penny per Ib. ; small parcels [7 Ib. or under], to pay Is. 6d. each. The pro- 

 prietors will not be accountable for valuable papers, cash, jewels, or plate, 

 and those that send goods must observe to pack them sufficient to undergo 

 the friction of the carriage, otherwise they cannot answer for damages. 



N. B. The Flies for Newcastle and London set out from the Black Bull 

 every day, as usual, and from the George and Blue Boar, Holburn, London, 

 for Edinburgh ; likewise a Diligence for Glasgow, &c. and from Mr. Dunbar's, 

 innkeeper, Glasgow, every day, for Edinburgh. 



It is intreated of the passengers not to allow the Drivers to take up 

 foot-travellers between stages. 



The Strathmore Diligence ran 'twixt Aberdeen and 

 Perth every week day. One prominent advantage of 

 travelling by it, too, was that passengers for Edinburgh 

 and Glasgow had "the benefit of a night's rest at 

 Perth," and were " forwarded next morning by coaches" 

 which left that place daily for the two cities named. 



The first serious effort to establish a public con- 

 veyance to northward of Aberdeen seems to have 

 been made soon after the construction of the Inverurie 



