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of a dark night on country roads the Hght can be too 

 powerful ; when it is not a dark night, and the road 

 does not pass much under trees, a carriage is better 

 without lamps. The best lamps in my opinion are oil. 



Messrs. Salisbury, of Long Acre, stand pre-eminent 

 as carriage-lamp manufacturers ; but I will speak of 

 lamps and their application to carriages hereafter. For 

 the present it is only necessary to mention the lamps 

 most in use. The lamp most often used is a candle- 

 lamp, with a spring below the candle to raise it in the 

 socket, on the old-fashioned principle. These are the 

 lamps commonly used, and with proper care they ought 

 not to get out of order. When the case of the lamp is 

 muddy, it ought to be w^ashed with a sponge, taking 

 care that no wet gets inside ; which, if covered with 

 candle-grease, ought to be held near the fire for the 

 grease to melt, and then rubbed with a dry cloth, and 

 afterwards cleaned with plate-powder ; if the springs 

 upon being taken out are dirty or choked up with grease, 

 they should be placed near a fire, when the grease will 

 melt and run away. If the candle fit the socket, the 

 candle will always rise in proportion as it is burnt 

 away, and will never fail to burn properly. During 

 a long driving tour I once took without a groom, I 

 attended to the lamps myself, and I had no reason 

 to regret doing so, as they burnt well during many a. 

 long journey in the dark, and never once went out. 



There are other lamps made which burn both colza 

 and mineral oil. Of course there is some danger about 

 using mineral oil, but it gives a very brilliant light. 

 Hansom cabs frequently are fitted with lamps that 

 make use of this oil. I recollect reading in a news- 

 paper that in Vienna there was a cabman who used 

 electric light in his cabs, which he generated by the 



