so HIGHWAYS AND HORSES. 



Windsor, and stays at an inn called " The Garter, "^ 

 and then returns to London. At another time 

 Mr. Pepys says : " Up early and to Petersfield, and 

 thence got a countryman to guide us to Havant, and 

 then on to Portsmouth, where there was my Lord 

 Ormond and Manchester, and much London company; 

 and then over to Gosport, and so rode to Southampton, 

 and the next day back to Portsmouth, and so on ta 

 Petersfield, and from there to London." 



The way this old gentleman journeys about does 

 not incline us to think that the roads were as bad, or 

 the country as dangerous and inaccessible, as has been 

 represented by modern writers, Evelyn, too, in his 

 diary, speaks of making numerous journeys, and 

 mentions no difficulty in doing so. 



Evelyn's diary is wTitten in far better English than 

 Pepys', and he expresses himself much more clearly 

 and better. Pepys' diary always gives one the im- 

 pression of a person who lived a great while ago, and 

 who, even for the time in which he lived, was rather 

 behind his contemporaries and equals in point of 

 culture and education ; whereas Evelyn's diary might 

 almost have been written at the present day, and was 

 evidently the work of a man of great refinement and 

 careful education. It is an unfortunate thing that 

 there are no such diaries written at other times, or, if 

 written, not preserved. There is no saying what the 

 value may not be, in times to come, of a good diary, 

 written by a person of education and intelligence. 

 Those who are best qualified to perform such a task 

 are frequently too lazy to put it into practice. 



For some time only waggons were in use on the 

 roads, and it was in these cumbersome vehicles that 

 passengers were compelled to travel. 



The first proper stage-coach was the Coventry 



