APPENDIX 



In taking a pleasing though melancholy retrospective 

 view of the departed — that is, of stage-coach travelling, 

 and the excellence to which it had arrived immediately 

 prior to the introduction of railroads — we are aj^t to 

 overlook some of the means by which it attained per- 

 fection, as well as the arrangements 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 

 estimation of the community generally. 



The o;reat chans-e from the old to the new school I 

 have had occasion slightly to touch upon in the body 

 of this book ; but as not the least important cause of 

 this change may be attributed to the establishment of 

 the B.D.C., I hope that it Avill not be thought out of 

 the Avay if I give some account of this, alas ! defunct 

 body. 



Its records are but few, and its institution and the 

 names of the original members live only in their 

 descendants, or in the memory of those who have 

 survived its dissolution. 



The gentleman under whose flattering auspices this 

 present work will see the light has in his possession a 



