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the fuel and water. The carriage was lightly 

 and conveniently built, not larger nor heavier 

 than a phaeton. It went without the least 

 vibration, and preserved a balance in the most 

 comphcated movements. The pace was varied 

 from five to twelve miles an hour, according to 

 pleasure. 



Coaching is still the only means of conveyance 

 in many parts of the Australian colonies, and 

 in certain districts where the roads are bad, or 

 owing to the nature of the country, it is often 

 attended with considerable danger. The follow- 

 ing account of an accident which lately occurred 

 in Tasmania, taken from the " Hobart Town 

 Mercury," will probably be interesting to many 

 who have travelled by coach in days gone 



by. 



" An extraordinary accident happened to the 

 Falmouth mail-coach on the 10th instant, and 

 the passengers experienced an escape from an 

 awful death, which seems little short of mira- 

 culous. After leaving the Httle township of 

 Culleuswood, the coach enters St. Mary's Pass, 

 noted both for its extreme beauty and for the 

 danger with which the journey through it is 

 sometimes attended. About four hundred yards 

 from the mouth of the pass on entering, the 



