THE COACHING AGE. 



morning, six in and eight outside passengers. 

 Changed horses at Dartford, and breakfasted at 

 Eochester ; dined at Canterbury, but the dinner was 

 so bad I could not touch it, so employed an hour in 

 visiting the cathedral, etc. We did not arrive at 

 Dover before nine.' 



Seventeen hours for a journey of seventy-one miles, 

 the distance from London to Dover, must have been 

 most tedious work, and anything but likely to cause 

 ' an affection of the brain ' from ' celerity,' like the 

 Edinburgh mail ; but the length of time consumed in 

 this journey can in some measure be accounted for 

 when it is noticed that the change was at Dartford, 

 certainly not less than seventeen miles from Piccadilly, 

 and then an hour or more seems to have been allowed 

 for dinner at Canterbury. 



I now give the time-bill of the London and 

 Carlisle mail, because this continued to Glasgow, 

 so that these two, the Edinburgh and the Glasgow, 

 were the only two mails running from England into 

 Scotland, and conveyed the whole of the cor- 

 respondence backwards and forwards between the 

 two countries ; the Post-Office arrangements being 

 such that they not only carried the London mail- 

 bags and those of all places along the two roads they 

 travelled, but they took on those from Manchester, 

 Liverpool, Birmingham, Exeter, and in fact, as I have 

 said, the whole country. 



