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woundinsr the stoker and the ensfineer 

 severely on their heads from a volley of stones. 

 The return journey was more satisfactory, as 

 the whole distance (eighty-four miles), stoppages 

 for fire and water included, was travelled over 

 in nine hours and twenty minutes, the carriage 

 at one time increasing its speed to twenty miles 

 an hour. The Duke of Welling-ton and his staff 

 met the carriage at Hounslow Barracks, and 

 were drawn in his Grace's barouche by the 

 steam-enofine into the town. 



From February to June, 1831, steam-car- 

 riagfes ran between Gloucester and Cheltenham 

 regularly four times a day, during which time 

 they carried nearly three thousand persons and 

 travelled nearly four thousand miles, without 

 a single accident. Every obstacle, however, was 

 thrown in the way of this new invention ; large 

 heaps of stones were laid across the road 

 eighteen inches deep, under the pretence of 

 repairing the highway; and on an Act of Parlia- 

 ment being passed which imposed prohibitory 

 tolls on turnpike trusts, the steam-carriage was 

 driven off the road. 



On the journey to Bath above referred to, 

 the toll for the steam-carrias^e was six guineas 

 each time of passing. About this period Colonel 



