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passengers' feet warm. He certainly had not any 

 foot-warnaers such as they have in railway-carriages 

 either for the outside or inside passengers. He had 

 also generally some other charges to make for sup- 

 posed disbursements which tended to diminish the 

 shares of his partners; added to which, I think in 

 all those instances where his own peculiar build of 

 coach was in use the vehicles belonged to him, and 

 he received a mileage for their use of a farthing or 

 halfpenny a mile more than a coachbuilder would 

 have charged : but to this the country proprietors 

 were obliged to submit, in order to secure his interest 

 and connection, and the benefit arising from running 

 to the Bull and Mouth in London. 



The farthing or halfpenny a mile seems a very in- 

 significant sum to mention, but when calculated upon 

 each mile throughout the journey of a long coach, and 

 daily throughout the year, it would amount to some- 

 thing considerable ; and further, if charged upon a 

 number of coaches running from the same establish- 

 ment, would constitute an appreciable item in the 

 gross receipts of the business. 



With respect to time-keeping, even of very fast 

 coaches, Sherman concurred with Chaplin as to their 

 being necessarily influenced much by the state of 

 the roads, as he said the keeping their time greatly 

 depended upon that and the season ; accordingly the 



