CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER PAGE 



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I. Early Coach-Travelling .... 



II. Common Stages and Hackney Coaches 



III. Stage-Coaches in the Eighteenth Century . 



IV. Her Majesty's State Coach. Napoleon's Coach 

 V. Roads and Rate of Speed .... 



VI. John Palmer and the Mail Coach System 



VII. Regulations ...... 



VIII. Further Regulations. De Quincy on Coaching 



IX. Procession of Mails on the King's Birthday 



X. Use of the Key Bugle. .... 



XI. Work and Wages of Guards. Driving Clubs 



XII. Dangers of the Road ..... 



XIII. The White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly. Short Stages 



XIV. Coaching in the North of England 

 XV. Peter Pry's Letter. Coachmen. Yards 



XVI. Washington Irving's Portrait of a Stage-Coachman 84 



XVII. John Day, a Pathetic Ballad 

 XVIII. Ascot . . . . 



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