40 COACHING. 



Prince George of Denmark visited the stately 

 mansion of Petworth in wet weather he was 

 six hours in going nine miles, and it was neces- 

 sary that a body of sturdy hinds should be on 

 each side of his coach in order to prop it. Of 

 the carriages which conveyed his retinue, several 

 were upset and injured. A letter from one 

 of his suite has been preserved, in which 

 the unfortunate gentleman-in-waiting complains 

 that during fourteen hours he never once alighted, 

 except when his coach was overturned or stuck 

 fast in the mud. 



Great contrast is offered in this narrative to 

 the present state of travelling ; " only, to be 

 sure," as Macaulay writes, " pjeople did get up ■, 



again with their heads on after a roll in the * 



Sussex mud, which, unhappily, is not always the ; 



case after a railway collision." 



Arthur Young, who travelled in Lan- 

 cashire in 1770, has left us the following 

 account of the state of the roads at that 

 time. 



"I know not," he says, "in the whole 

 range of language, terms sufiSciently expressive 

 to describe this awful road. Let me most 

 seriously caution all travellers who ma}'" accident- 

 ally propose to travel this terrible country to 



