COACHING BUSINESS. 207 



£ s. d. 



The gross earnings 845 8 8 



Disbursements 261 4 2 



Seventj'^-two miles — divided - £584 4 6 



The disbursements above seem to be heavy, but, as 

 will be seen, they were made at different places along 

 the road by tacit arrangement, and no inquiries were 

 made into them, nor was any verification of them 

 required. 



The payments for post-chaises must, I presume, 

 have been for forwarding travellers when the coaches 

 were full. 



The charge of seven guineas for booking at 

 Beaconsfield seems heavy, and exceeds even those in 

 London and other places on the road, but why I 

 cannot explain. Notwithstanding, however, the heavy 

 disbursements, the sharing of £4 15s. a mile is good. 



Having given some instances of the amounts 

 received and disbursed in conducting the English 

 coaching business, I will only add one of the ' Com- 

 mercial' and 'Perseverance' coaches running between 

 Edinburgh a'nd Glasgow, and the mails also working 

 between the same places. 



The settlement accounts of the Edinburgh and 

 Glasgow mail-coaches do not include any items for 

 tolls, which I cannot understand, as in Scotland the 

 mails were subject to tolls which amounted to 

 considerable sums, as the Glasgow and Carlisle mail 



