212 THE COACHING AGE. 



I don't know whether the Scotch mails in general 

 paid better than the English, but the accounts of those 

 running between Edinburgh and Glasgow show much 

 better paying concerns than the Bristol, in which, 

 as will be seen by the foregoing account, the pro- 

 prietors only shared £4 14s. a mile, while the Scotch 

 proprietors divided at the rate of £6 lis. 4d. ; but 

 the great traffic between Edinburgh and Glasgow most 

 likely filled the mails every day both ways. 



I do not think that the London and Glasgow, 

 London and Edinburgh, or any of the English mails 

 did so well ; several I know did not pay half as 

 much, and their earnings were obliged to be 

 supplemented by an extra allowance from the 

 Postmaster-General in order to get the proprietors 

 along the roads to continue working them. 



