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Ord, constant to the Pump-room ; and Georgiana 

 Duchess of Devonshire, of whose style of beauty " vanity 

 was such a characteristic that it required it indispensably," 

 and who put her face to the glass of her chair as 

 she passed Miss Burney and remarked, ' How d'ye 

 do ? ' " 



These travellers on the Bath Road came personally 

 under the author of Evelina's piercing ken, and are 

 accordingly types for ever. The Bath Miscellany of 

 1740 enlarges the list with some unfamiliar names — to 

 wit, a Miss Jeffery, junior, who danced well and had "a 

 poem wrote her in the rooms ; " a nameless gentleman, 

 likevv^ise celebrated by the local bard, " who was observed 

 never to go to church till Miss Potter came to Bath, 

 when he went twice a day as constant as she ; " a parson 

 also nameless, who played PJiaroaJi (note the spelling), 

 and who suffered for his imprudence by an impromptu 

 delivered to him on a card ; and a hundred other figures 

 — old, young, beautiful, decrepit, bent on health, pleasure, 

 scandal, wine, or the waters, but travellers on the Bath 

 Road, all of them, and any of whom, when the inevitable 

 time for separation and departure had come, might have 

 been seen standing in groups about the White Lion Inn 

 in 1780, much as their ancestors stood about the Belle 

 Sauvage a hundred and thirty years before, but with less 

 surprise on their faces, eying some such announcements 

 as these, and prepared for the worst : 



"MACHINE IN TWO DAYS. 



" From ]?ath for London, Mondays, Wednesdays, and P'ridays ; arrive 

 at. London from ]>ath, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The ma- 

 chines from the WMiite Lion Inn at the Bell Savage, on Ludgate Hill ; 

 those from the White Hart Inn, at the White Swan, Holborn Bridge, and 

 the Three Cups in Bread Street ; and those from the Bear Inn at the Swan 

 with Two Necks in Lad Lane. 



" Passengers to pay One Pound five Shillings each, who are allowed to 

 carry fourteen Pounds Weight— for all above to pay three halfpence per 

 Pound." 



I do not think that 1 can close my review of the old 



