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and, secondly, tbat they should be well fed. 

 Horses have increased greatly in price since 

 the period I write of, and a team which would 

 have cost a hundred guineas in 1832 could not 

 now be had for two hundred and fifty guineas. 

 The cost of coaches of the best materials 

 varied from one hundred and forty pounds to 

 one hundred and sixty pounds ; generally speak- 

 ing, they were hired from the maker at from 

 twopence half-penny to threepence per mile. 



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