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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



as the residence of Hazlitt, and as the scene, on the 

 evening of October 20; 18 16, of an attack by an escaped 

 lioness on the Exeter Mail) to Salisbury ; the other 

 route being by Weyhill, Mullens Pond, Park House, 

 Amesbury, and thence to Exeter by Mere, Wincanton, 

 and Ilminster. Of this road, which was the one taken 

 by the Telegraph, more anon. The Quicksilver, the 

 other crack coach on the Great Western road, which 





Barry Lyndon Cracks a Bottle. 



was timed eighteen hours for the 175 miles, changed 

 horses at Salisbury, which is one of the most 

 picturesque towns in the south of England, and will make 

 a convenient halting-place for me, it being situate 

 almost exactly halfway between lixetcr and London. 



The town of Salisbury, which is eighty miles seven 

 furlongs from Hyde Park Corner, is chiefly remarkable 

 for its cathedral ; and it owes this agreeable notoriety to 

 the north wind. This may sound strange in the ears 

 of those who hav^c not, attired as shepherds, highwaymen 



