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ROADS AND TRAVELLING 



PART ITT. 



petual motion, or endless jolt from one place to another, in a close 

 wooden box, over what appeared to be a heap of unhewn stones and 

 trunks of trees scattered by a hurricane. To make my happiness 

 complete, I had three travelling companions, all farmers, who slept 

 so soundly that even the hearty knocks with which they hammered 

 their heads against each other and against mine did not awake 

 them. Their faces, bloated and discoloured by ale and brandy and 

 the knocks aforesaid, looked, as they lay before me, like so many 

 lumps of dead flesh. 



" I looked, and certainly felt, like a crazy fool when we arrived 

 at London in the afternoon." ] 



THE BASKET COACH, 17SO. 

 [By Louis Huard, after a Print by Kowlandson ] 



Arthur Young, in his books, inveighs strongly against 

 the execrable state of the roads in all parts of England 

 towards the end of last century. In Essex he found the 

 ruts "of an incredible depth," and he almost swears at 

 one near Tilbury. " Of all the cursed roads," he says. 



1 C. H. Moritz : * Ixeisc eincs Deutschen in England im Jalirc 1782.' 

 Berlin, 1783. 



