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prise died away, as it presently did, either because 

 the proprietors had undertaken to perform more 

 than they coukl do, or j^ossihly for the reason that 

 they had come to an agreement not to force the 

 pace or cut the fares. Such rivalries and such 

 subsequent agreements were in after years the 

 merest commonplaces of coaching history, and if 

 we seek them here we shall probably lie by way 

 of explaining the falling-off that left its traces 

 twenty and thirty years later in the following 

 announcement : — 



THE EDINBURGHSTAGE-COACH, 

 for the better Accommodation of Pailen- 

 gers, will be altered to a new genteel Two-end 

 Glafe Machine, hung on Steel Springs, exceeding 

 light and eafy, to go in ten Days in Summer and 

 twelve in VVinier, to fet out the firft Tuefday in 

 March, and continue it from Hofea Eaftgate's, the 

 Coach and Horfes in Dean-ftreer, Soho, LON- 

 DON, and from John Somervell's in the Canon 

 gate, Edinburgh, every other Tuefday, and raeei 

 at Burrow-bndge on Saturday Night, and fet out 

 from thence on Monday Morning, and get to 

 London and Edinburgh on Friday. In the Win- 

 terao fet out from London and Edinburgh every 

 other Monday Morning, and to get to Burrow- 

 bridge on Saturday Night; and to fet out from 

 thence on Monday Morning, and get to London 

 and Edinburgh on Saturday Night. ■ PafFengers to 

 pay as ufual. Perform'd, if God permits, by your 

 dutiful Servant, HOSE A EASTGATE. 



Care is taken of fmall Parcels, paying according 

 to their Value. 



COACHING ADVERTISEMENT FROM THE EDINBURGH 

 COURANT, 1751. 



