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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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But
though
the
Department
did
wake
up
to
the
need
for
a
better
distribution
of
its
favours
in
the
country
districts
in
1851,
there
were
earlier
instances
of
surveyors
attempting
to
lay
down
the
posts
for
the
general
good,
instead
of
for
a
select
few,
and
in
these
cases
the
surveyors
had
sometimes
a
hard
battle
to
fight.
The
following
report
from
a
surveyor
in
Scotland,
written
in
the
year
1800,
will
illustrate
what
is
here
mentioned.
It
is
given
at
length,
and
will
possibly
be
found
worthy
of
perusal;
for
it
not
only
shows
both
spirit
and
independence
on
the
part
of
the
surveyor,
who
was
evidently
a
man
determined
to
do
his
duty
irrespective
of
persons,
but
it
sheds
some
light
on
the
practices
of
the
post-runners
of
that
period,
and
their
relations
with
their
superiors
on
the
one
hand,
and
the
public
on
the
other.
It
affords
us,
too,
a
specimen
of
official
writing
remarkable
for
some
rather
quaint
turns
and
expressions.
The
report
proceeds:--
"I
am
much
obliged
by
the
perusal
of
my
Lord
----'s
card
to
you
of
the
29th
ultimo,
with
the
copy
of
a
fresh
memorial
from
his
lordship
and
other
gentlemen
upon
the
long-argued
subject
of
the
alteration
of
the
course
of
the
post
betwixt
Perth
and
Coupar-Angus.
"It
is
certainly
one
of
those
cases
which
hath
become
of
tenfold
more
importance
by
the
multiplicity
of
writing,
than
from
any
solid
reasoning
or
essential
matter
of
information
to
be
drawn
from
it.
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