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Utan bdter, but where anyone takes a chaise, vagn,* to 

 a certain place outside the town it then commonly de- 

 pends on a bargain. Besides this there is the law or 

 regulation, lag eller stadga, for these hire-chaises in 

 the town, that if one wishes to have the carriage for 

 several hours, a. half or a whole day, then it is paid for 

 according to the number of hours, in this way, that two 

 shillings are always paid for the first hour, but after that, 

 only a shilling is paid for each hour. In the same way 

 one can almost anywhere get a carrier, akare, to convey 

 anything that may be needed. Similarly there is always 

 a multitude of porters, Bar are, ready to carry anything 

 from one place to another. 



In several places, especially at the west side of the 

 town, where the Court resides, der Hofvet bor, there 

 are seen a number of Post Chaises, which stand for hire 

 at anybody's service. 



At all the steps by the river, and in the "lanes," 

 granderna, which run down to the same [T. I. p. 449] 

 there stand whole troops of rowers, Roddare, who as 

 soon as they.become aware of anyone coming a long way 

 off, set up a horrible noise, et faseligt buller, so that 

 by shouts and upraised hands they made known their 

 readiness to carry one where he wished to go on the 

 river.t 



The Penny Post is also here a useful institution, which 

 consists in this, that if one has a letter or anything else, 

 which does not exceed a pound in weight, to send to 

 anyone in London, or the places situated close by, it is 



* " We engaged what is termed a wagon, but which bears a tolerable re- 

 semblance to an ordinary post chaise, to take us to Brill," Sec, p. 32, 

 Descriptive History of Holland. Grandfather, 1819. iamo. Q.L.] 



t Vincent Bourne gives an amusing description of this in his " Iter per 

 Thamisin." 



" At nautae venientem ubi me videre sagaces, 

 Sese disponunt, omnes clamare parati, 

 Et jam protensis manibus diversa loquuntur,'' &c. [J.L.] 



