2o8 THE COACHING AGE. 



paid in daily tolls at the gates within three different 

 trusts on the road, £8 4s., or £2,993 yearly. I rather 

 think that the items in the Edinburgh and Glasgow 

 mail accounts, entered as ' paid out ' and ' paid rent,' 

 must represent the tolls, especially as they form 

 a considerable element in the disbursements, and I 

 do not see to what else they can be applicable ; and 

 moreover, the Act of Parliament under which mails 

 had been exempt from tolls in Scotland was repealed 

 in the year 1815, and thereupon an additional rate of 

 postage to the amount of one halfpenny was imposed 

 upon all letters in Scotland ; but with this regulation, 

 that where the letter might be a double or treble one 

 no more than the halfpenny was to be charged as 

 excess over English letters. 



How far the expenses of horsing a mail or coach in 

 Scotland may correspond, or rather might have 

 corresponded (in the days when mails and coaches 

 ran), with those in England, I have no means of 

 stating ; but probably the exact locality, as in England, 

 made a great deal of diiference, as a coach -proprietor 

 some distance down in the country could afford to do 

 it at a much lower rate than a London man. B. W. 

 Home, the large coach-proprietor of the Golden Cross, 

 Charing Cross, and other places, said a man could 

 horse a coach the other side of Stamford at fifty per 

 cent, less than he could, because they got everything 

 on a cheaper scale. 



