14 ANNALS OF THE ROAD. 



THE EDINBURGH STAGE COACH 



For the better accommodation of passengers, will be 

 altered to a new genteel two-end glass coach machine, 

 being on steel springs, exceeding light, and easy to go in 

 ten days in summer and twelve in winter ; to set out the 



FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 



And continue it from HOSEA EASTGATE'S, the 

 'COACH AND HORSES,' in DEAN STREET, 

 SOHO, LONDON, and from JOHN SOMERVILLE'S, 

 in the CANONGATE, EDINBURGH, every other 

 Tuesday, and meet at BURROW BRIDGE on 

 Saturday night, and set out from thence on Monday 

 MORNING, and get to LONDON and EDINBURGH 

 on Friday. In winter to set out from LONDON to 

 EDINBURGH every other (alternate) Monday morn- 

 ing, and to go to BURROW BRIDGE on Saturday 

 night. Passengers to pay as usual. 



Performed, if God permits, by 



Your dutiful servant, 



HOSEA EASTGATE. 



The year 1757 saw another ' flying machine on steel 

 springs ' established by the merchants of Liverpool after 

 the example of the Manchester ' Flying Coach.' It was 

 designed to beat, and did beat, the Manchester coach in 

 point of speed, three days only being allowed from Liver- 

 pool to London. Sheffield and Leeds followed with 

 their respective fly coaches ; and by 1 784 these vehicles 

 had become quite common and did their eight miles an 

 hour. 



