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whether such a system could be made available for 

 long distances. This is rather in accordance with the 

 opinions expressed as to the travelling at night both 

 on the Leeds and Selby and Manchester and Liver- 

 pool lines in the days of their infancy. 



As it was a convenient arrangement that all the 

 correspondence out of London should leave the General 

 Post Office at eight o'clock at night, an hour when all" 

 the business of the day was finished, so it was found 

 also convenient that it should all arrive at much 

 about the same time, and at an early hour in the 

 morning, for the general post delivery. 



The departure from London took place in this 

 manner ; all the mails travelling northward, such as — 



and some others, went out at the northern gate of the 

 Post-Office yard, opposite the Bull and Mouth ; and 

 seven of them, which passed through Barnet, went up 

 Aldersgate Street; but the Edinburgh went down 

 Old Street and out of London through Shoreditch, 

 Tottenham, and on to Waltham Cross. 



The mails running south and eastward went out at 

 the gate next Cheapside, and comprised — 



The Dover, 



„ Norwich and Ipswich, 

 „ Norwich and Newmarket, 



The Lynn, 

 „ Louth, 



