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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
114
In
establishing
a
post
to
Blairgowrie
it
was
neither
ignorant
nor
arbitrary
to
take
the
line
by
Isla
Bridge,
which
was
the
centre
of
the
country
meant
to
be
served
by
it--that
is,
the
Coupar
and
the
Stormont
and
Highland
district.
It
is
of
some
consequence
to
observe
here,
that
with
all
the
great
and
rapid
improvements
mentioned
in
the
memorial,
of
the
lower
or
Coupar
district,
the
upper
or
Stormont
district
was,
upon
the
first
year's
trial,
above
one-half
of
its
revenue
to
the
Post-office,
the
second
nearly
or
about
three-fourths,
and
continuing
to
increase
in
proportion.
Coupar-Angus
revenue
for
the
year
ending
10th
October
last
was
L159,
3s.
7d.,
and
Blairgowrie
L123,
4s.
10d.
Now,
if
the
Coupar
district
of
country,
which
contains
in
it
a
populous
market-town,
can
produce
no
more
than
this
proportion
for
the
whole
district,
it
is
evident
that
the
district
of
Stormont,
with
only
as
yet
a
little
village
for
its
head
town,
has
more
correspondence
in
regard
to
its
state
of
agriculture
and
improvement
as
an
infant
district,
than
the
parent
district
with
its
antiquity
can
lay
claim
to,
and
equally
well
entitled
at
least
to
be
protected
and
nourished.
Much
is
said
of
the
memorialists'
line
of
road,
and
of
its
being
one
from
time
immemorial.
I
have
said
in
a
former
paper
that
this
may
be
the
case;
many
of
the
roads
in
Scotland,
God
knows,
are
old
enough.
But
unless
the
feudal
system
should
still
exist
upon
any
of
them,
I
know
of
no
law,
no
regulation,
no
compulsion,
that
can
oblige
the
post,
more
than
any
other
traveller,
to
take
these
old
beaten
tracks
where
they
can
find
any
other
patent
or
better
road.
Nay,
more,--as
a
traveller,
I
am
entitled
to
take
any
patent
road
I
choose,
good
or
bad;
and
the
moment
this
privilege
is
doubted
in
regard
to
the
post,
you
resign
at
once
the
power
of
all
future
improvements
so
far
as
it
belongs
to
your
official
situation
to
judge
it,
and
let
or
dispose
of
in
lease
the
use
of
your
posts
to
particular
and
local
proprietors
of
lands,
who
will
be
right
to
take
every
advantage
of
it
in
their
power,
and
include
it
specifically
in
the
rental
of
their
estates,
as
I
have
known
to
be
the
case
with
inns
in
which
post-offices
had
formerly
been
kept.
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