THE DOVKK ROAD 



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every turn history, romance, legend, spring beneath our 

 feet. For the moment, in face of such a treasure house 

 of the fantastic past, all recollections of coachmen and 

 coaches, and wheelers and leaders, and time bills, and 

 Carey's Itinerary and Paterson's Roads, and other data 

 for horsey history, vanish as a tale that is told. Only for 

 a moment however, for the coaching tale of the Dover 



Taking out the Leaders. 



Road has not been told yet at all, and very shortly has 

 to be. 



Meanwhile the history of Canterbury — and by its 

 history I mean not only its coaching history, with its 

 accompanying casualties, shoes cast, bolting horses, 

 chains snapped, &c, &c. ; but also its long list of 

 historical visitors who reached it by the Dover Road, 

 and not by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway — 



