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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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"There
are
three
great
roads
to
the
north
of
Scotland
from
Perth
(besides
one
by
Dunkeld)--viz.,
one
by
Dundee,
&c.,
one
by
Coupar,
&c.,
and
one
by
Blairgowrie,
which
run
not
at
a
very
great
distance
in
general
from
each
other
in
a
parallel
line.
The
great
post-line
or
mail-coach
road
is
by
Dundee;
and
there
is
little
chance,
I
believe,
of
this
being
departed
from,
as
there
is
no
other
that
can
ever
be
equally
certain.
The
next
great
road
to
the
westward
is
by
Coupar
and
Forfar,
&c.,
and
is
supplied
by
branch-posts
from
the
east
or
coast
line.
And
the
third
or
upper
line
is
by
Blairgowrie
and
Spittal
of
Glenshee,
which
have
no
post
for
50,
60,
or
70
miles;
and
if
ever
that
part
of
the
country
is
to
have
the
blessing
of
a
regular
post,
it
surely
ought
not
to
be
by
branching
from
the
coast-line
through
all
the
different
centres,
but
by
the
more
immediate
and
direct
line
through
Blairgowrie.
Every
one
will
call
his
own
line
the
great
line;
but
surely,
if
I
am
to
travel
either,
I
should
be
allowed
to
judge
for
myself;
and
I
believe
it
would
be
thought
very
arbitrary
indeed,
if,
before
I
set
out,
a
proprietor
or
advocate
for
any
of
these
great
lines
should
arrest
my
carriage
or
my
horse,
and
say,
You
shall
not
proceed
but
upon
my
line.
I
confess
myself
so
stupid
that
I
can
see
no
difference
betwixt
this
and
taking
it
out
of
the
power
of
the
Post-office
to
judge
what
line
they
shall
journey
mails.
If
this
is
not
the
case,
then
all
the
present
lines
of
the
post,
however
absurd
and
ridiculous
they
now
are
or
may
become,
must,
as
they
were
at
the
beginning
and
now
are,
remain
so
for
ever.
And
I
would
expect
next
to
see
legal
charters
and
infeftments
taken
upon
them
as
post-roads
merely,
and
travellers
thirled
to
them
as
corn
to
a
mill.
But
in
regard
to
the
voluminous
writings
already
had
upon
this
subject,
and
now
renewed
in
this
last
memorial,
it
may
be
necessary
to
be
a
little
more
particular.
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