64 COACHING. 



an hour and a half! Surely Dsedalus is come 

 amono^st us ao;ain." 



What would the writer of the above have 

 thought if he had lived to travel by what is 

 termed the " Flvino; Dutchman," which now 



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runs from London to Plymouth in six hours 

 and a quarter, and which, we understand, 

 will shortly accomplish seventy miles an 

 hour. 



To resume — or, as the gentlemanly gang 

 under Captain Macheath say, " Let us take 

 the road " as it was at the period above men- 

 tioned. 



The Edinburgh Mail ran the distance (four 

 hundred miles) in forty hours, stoppages in- 

 cluded. The Exeter day-coach, the " Herald," 

 performed her journey of one hundred and 

 seventy-three miles in twenty hours ; Steven- 

 son's Brighton " Age " kept its time to the 

 minute; in short, from London to Cheltenham, 

 Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Norwich, 

 Bath, Bristol, Southampton, Oxford, Cam- 

 bridge, was little more than a pleasant Summer 

 day's drive. 



In order to accomplish the above fast jour- 

 ney two important considerations were required ; 

 first, that the horses should not be overworked, 



