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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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There
were
also
a
few
bad
roads.
Arthur
Young,
in
his
famous
Tour
in
the
North
of
England,
has
described
a
Lancashire
turnpike-road
of
about
the
same
period
in
the
following
vigorous
phraseology:--"I
know
not
in
the
whole
range
of
language
terms
sufficiently
expressive
to
describe
this
infernal
road.
To
look
over
a
map
and
perceive
that
it
is
a
principal
road,
one
would
naturally
conclude
it
to
be
at
least
decent;
but
let
me
most
seriously
caution
all
travellers
who
may
purpose
to
travel
this
terrible
country
to
avoid
it
as
they
would
the
devil,
for
a
thousand
to
one
they
will
break
their
necks
or
their
limbs
by
over-throws
or
breakings-down.
They
will
here
meet
with
ruts
which
actually
measured
four
feet
deep
and
floating
with
mud,
and
this
only
from
a
wet
summer;
what,
therefore,
must
it
be
after
a
winter?
The
only
mending
which
it
in
places
receives
is
the
tumbling
in
some
loose
stones,
which
serve
no
other
purpose
but
jolting
a
carriage
in
the
most
intolerable
manner.
These
are
not
merely
opinions,
but
facts,
for
I
actually
passed
three
carts
broken
down
in
these
eighteen
miles
of
execrable
memory."
The
road
in
question
was
that
between
Wigan
and
Preston,
then
a
regular
post-road
and
now
on
the
trunk
line
of
mail
conveyance
into
Scotland.
[52]
Chambers'
Traditions
of
Edinburgh,
vol.
i.
p.
168.
[53]
Baines's
History
of
Lancashire,
p.
83.
[54]
The
Bath
post
was
no
exception.
The
letters
which
left
London
at
two
o'clock
on
Monday
morning
did
not
reach
Worcester,
Norwich,
or
Birmingham
till
the
Wednesday,
Exeter
not
till
Thursday,
and
Glasgow
and
Edinburgh
for
about
a
week.
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