44 AUTOBIOGRAPHY [CHAP. vi. 



side, about a field or two from the road, was the lowest part 

 of the Wye at its point of juncture with the Severn, and the 

 noble estuary itself opening out from about four miles 

 width till it was lost to view in the distance of the Severn 

 Sea. 



The Old Passage, though probably as well managed as 

 was reasonably possible, was, in many respects, a most 



TIME TABLE ILLUSTRATING THE METHOD OF TRAVELLING 

 200 YEARS AGO. 



YORK Four Days 

 Stage-Coach. 



Rtguis on Friday tie i ztb. of April 1 706. 



ALL that are defirous to paf shorn Ijmdan to Yor\ 

 or from Tor\ to -London, or any other Place 

 on that Road. Lei them Repair to the dfa\SM*m 

 HcHbown in London , flT{(l to the Blacf^Svan m Coney 

 ftreetin Torf(. 



At both which Places, they may be received in a 

 Srage Coach every Monday. Wednesday and Friday, 

 wbich performs the whole] our neym Four Days, (if 

 Cod permit*) And fcts forth at Five m theMormng. 



And returns from Tor\ to Stamford in two days, 

 and from Stamford by Huntmgton. to London, in two 

 days more And the like Stages on their return. 



. and all bore 



f benjamin Kingston. 

 Performed By % Henry Harrtfon, 

 \Wah(.r 



Alfo this givesNoticethat Newcaftle Stage Coach, {els 

 'out from York, every Monday, and Friday, and 

 from Newcaftle every Monday, and Friday. 

 <$? ivt W.' 



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inconvenient necessity. On one occasion, while fourteen 

 passengers were crossing in a sailing boat, every living 

 thing, except one dog, perished in mid-transit. It was on a 

 stormy Sunday in September, 1838, and the boat was heavily 

 laden with horses as well as the passengers. How the 

 accident happened was never known. One of my brothers 

 had been watching the boat from our cliffs, and on looking 

 again, after a minute or so, she was gone. The conjectural 



