CRANFORD 



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been out of use ; in fact, their handles are all chained 

 up. They recur so regularly that they might almost 

 form part of a new table of measurement, as thus : — 



Go paces equal 1 telegraph-post. 



19 telegraph-posts „ 1 mile. 



2 miles ,, 1 pump. 



1^ pumps ,, 1 pub. 



A liATH i;OAD PUMT. 



Cranford is a more picturesquely romantic place 

 than any one has a right to expect in the Middlesex 

 of these latter days. That outlying portion of the 

 villao;e which borders the hio-h-road still wears the 

 air of a tentative settlement of civilization amid 

 the wilds of the rolling prairie, and might form a 

 ready object-lesson for any untravelled Englishman 

 who desires " local colour " for the writing of an 



