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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
110
In
Scotland
and
Ireland,
great
improvements
had
also
been
made
in
this
respect,
considering
the
previously
wretched
state
of
both
countries,
Scotland
especially.
At
a
somewhat
earlier
period,
four
miles
of
the
best
post-road
in
Scotland--namely,
that
between
Edinburgh
and
Berwick--were
described
in
a
contemporary
record
as
being
in
so
ruinous
a
state,
that
passengers
were
afraid
of
their
lives,
"either
by
their
coaches
overturning,
their
horses
stumbling,
their
carts
breaking,
or
their
loads
casting,
and
the
poor
people
with
burdens
on
their
backs
sorely
grieved
and
discouraged;"
moreover,
"strangers
do
often
exclaim
thereat,"
as
well
they
might.
Things
were
different
at
the
close
of
the
last
century;
still,
the
difficulties
encountered
in
travelling,
say
by
the
Bar,
may
well
serve
to
show
the
internal
state
of
the
country.
"Those
who
are
born
to
modern
travelling,"
says
Lord
Cockburn,[63]
"can
scarcely
be
made
to
understand
how
the
previous
age
got
on.
There
was
no
bridge
over
the
Tay
at
Dunkeld,
or
over
the
Spey
at
Fochabers,
or
over
the
Findhorn
at
Forres.
Nothing
but
wretched
peerless
ferries,
let
to
poor
cotters,
who
rowed,
or
hauled,
or
pushed
a
crazy
boat
across,
or
more
commonly
got
their
wives
to
do
it....
There
was
no
mail-coach
north
of
Aberdeen
till
after
the
battle
of
Waterloo....
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