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The horses were none of them at all injured by 

 the drive, and were all returned in good condition 

 to the persons from whom they had been procured. 

 The coach used was built by Guiet & Co., of 

 Paris, for Mr Tiffany, and is an exact reproduction 

 of the old English mail. It is shown in Plate VII. ; 

 its weight is 2712 pounds. M. Guiet, M. Hieckel, 

 an amateur photographer, and M. Luque, the well- 

 known artist, were inside passengers, Morris E. 

 Howlett guard. The time was from 6 a.m. to 4.50 

 p.m., no stops having been made except for changes. 



In a drive against time, there is some difficulty in 

 determining the exact distance unless the roadway 

 is gone over with a very accurate odometer, since 

 measurements made on even a large-scale map fail 

 to include some detours absolutely passed over by 

 the coach. In the account of Selby's drive, The 

 Field of July 21, 1888, remarks that while the dis- 

 tance is set down as 54 miles, the road-books call it 

 5 1 by the road actually followed. Unless, therefore, 

 two coaches pass over exactly the same road, it is 

 not easy to compare the times made by them to 

 fractions of a mile in the hour. 



In this same article, The Field mentions a run, 

 from London to Brighton, of a coach taking the 

 report of a speech of William IV., in three hours 

 and forty minutes, which is faster than Selby's time, 

 but the run was only one way. It also states that 

 on May-day, in 1830, the regular coach ran from 

 London to Birmingham, 109 miles, in 7 hours and 



