Setting Out. 



COACHING DAYS AND 

 COACHING WAYS 



I.— THE BATH ROAD 



In setting out on the Great Roads of England — 

 whether in the lumbering six-inside vehicles of the 

 seventeenth century, or in the light four-inside Fast 

 Coaches which in about 1823 marked the meridian of 

 road travelling — I propose to take an inconstant course 

 of my own. And by inconstant I mean that I shall 

 bind myself neither to time, place, nor consistency of 

 attitude to my subject. I shall now look at it, for 



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