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wagtail This combination of motions is quite bad 

 enough ; but it is far from the worst. The roads are 

 not good in fact they are execrable. There are 

 great ruts and hollows in them, and they go down 

 unexpectedly into the dry beds of Avater - courses. 

 The consequence is, that there comes every now and 

 then the most tremendous series of bumps and crashes, 

 which no pillows can render tolerable, and which are 

 almost as bad as a railway collision. You are going 

 on quietly enough, only your brain feeling rather 

 confused by the above-noted mysterious motions, 

 when suddenly you are bumped and dashed about 

 in the most violent manner. You are tossed off your 

 couch for a couple of feet, and, as you descend, the 

 couch rises to meet you with a violent blow, and 

 knocks you up to the roof of the cjdrlii ; while, an 

 instant after, you are nearly knocked through the 

 side, and brought into violent contact with iron 

 stanchions and wooden boards. After a little more 

 of this sort of business, you subside into the mysteri- 

 ous motion again, but bruised, bewildered, wondering 

 where you are, and what crime you have committed. 

 Such sufferings the traveller has to endure in even 

 a well-appointed bullock iji'rrlit ; and I never heard 

 any Englishman say a good word in favour of that 

 vehicle except a Scotch member of Parliament, who, 

 on his visit to India, declared in favour of it, on 

 the ground that " at least you have it all to your- 

 self." But what are all these sufferings compared 



