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proprietor of the coach with Mr. Freeman, and this 

 pleasant journey is performed throughout in first-rate 

 style, and offers an opportunity for those who like to 

 see four good horses handled in proper form, and 

 taking a lesson in coaching as well as enjoying for a 

 few hours the invigorating air of Brighton. In order 

 to maintain the high speed at which this coach is 

 worked, the stages are short, and the number of horses 

 required to work the road is thirty-six every one 

 being well suited to its place. Now that the weather 

 is to some extent improved there is yet time to try a 

 trip on any one of the fourteen stage-coaches still 

 running, and I know of no pleasanter way of spending 

 a few days than by travelling in this fashion along the 

 routes which I have named. Of the increasing popu- 

 larity of coaching an instance is afforded by the notifi- 

 cation of an arrangement for the working of a coach 

 by Mr. Geo. Cox, between Hatchett's and The Lion at 

 Farningham, via Bromley and Chiselhurst, at an early 

 period of the ensuing spring. 



