APPENDIX. 



IN taking a pleasing though, melancholy 

 retrospective view of the departed that is, 

 of stage-coach travelling, and the excel- 

 lence to which it had arrived immediately 

 prior to the introduction of railroads we are 

 apt to overlook some of the means by which 

 it attained perfection, as well as the ar- 

 rangements that helped to produce it. 



Among the latter, I must name the great 

 improvement that appeared in the men, 

 who gave a character to, and raised the 

 profession of the stage coachman, in the 



