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To Gravesend for Is. and Is. 6d. 



„ Dover „ 5s. 



„ Eamsgate „ Is. 6d. 



„ Boulogne „ 3s. 6d. and 4s. 



From the mucli greater cheapness of travelling by 

 steamer than by road, an endeavour was made to 

 reach some point where the former mode of con- 

 veyance would be available — and thus persons 

 travelling from Maidstone to London would go to 

 Gravesend for half-a-crown, and thence to London 

 for eighteenpence, paying only four shillings for the 

 whole journey, whereas travelling the whole way by 

 coach would cost six shillings. 



With the duties removed the coach-proprietors 

 considered that they might be able to compete with 

 the steamers ; but with the railways it was quite 

 a different matter : they did not think any removal 

 of duties would enable them to withstand such for- 

 midable rivals, and the correctness of this opinion 

 was subsequently amply proved. 



