THE COACHING AGE. 



The next mail is slower still than the Portsmouth, 



but then it was only a pair-horse mail, the ' Hastings,' 



the time-bill of which ran as follows : 



general post office.— viscount lowther, her 

 majesty's postmaster-general. 



London and St. Leonards Time Bill. 



The time of working each stage is to be reckoned, etc., according to 

 the form at the foot of all the mail time-bills used by the Postmaster- 

 General. By command of the Postmaster-General, 



Geoege Stow, Surveyor and Superintendent. 



Down- time in 1 840, nine hours. Up, 8.45 



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Distance, 1840 and 1841, 68m. 7f. 



