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and Munificence, I have attempted to Improve our Commerce 

 and Correspondency at Home by Registering and Illustrating 

 Your Majesty's High- Ways, Directly and Transversly, as 

 from Shore to Shore, so to the Prescribed Limits of the 

 Circumambient Ocean, from this Great Emporium and Prime 

 Center of the Kingdom, Your Royal Metropolis." 



" The Traveller's Guide " is described as " A most exact 

 Description of the Roads of England, being Mr Ogilby's Actual 

 Survey and Mensuration by the Wheel of the Great Roads 

 from London to all the considerable Cities and Towns in 

 England and Wales, together with the Cross Roads from one 

 City or Eminent Town to another " ; while in the preface 

 the author throws more light on the previous reference to 

 his Majesty's munificence, saying : 



" This Description of England was undertaken by the 

 Express Command of King Charles II., and it was at his 

 Expence that Mr Ogilby with great exactness performed an 

 Actual Survey and Mensuration by the Wheel of all the 

 Principal Roads of England." 



