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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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In
the
north
of
Scotland
a
similar
account
was
given
of
the
roads
there
about
the
year
1730.
The
writer
of
'Letters
from
a
Gentleman
in
the
North
of
Scotland'
stated
that
"the
Highlands
are
but
little
known
even
to
the
inhabitants
of
the
low
country
of
Scotland,
for
they
have
ever
dreaded
the
difficulties
and
dangers
of
travelling
among
the
mountains;
and
when
some
extraordinary
occasion
has
obliged
any
one
of
them
to
such
a
progress,
he
has,
generally
speaking,
made
his
testament
before
he
set
out,
as
though
he
were
entering
upon
a
long
and
dangerous
sea-voyage,
wherein
it
was
very
doubtful
if
he
should
ever
return."
Yet
later
still,
and
in
close
proximity
to
London,
a
royal
party
had
a
most
unsatisfactory
journey,
owing
to
the
miserable
state
of
the
roads.
It
happened
that
in
1727
George
II.
and
Queen
Caroline
were
proceeding
from
the
palace
at
Kew
to
that
at
St
James's,
when
they
had
to
spend
a
whole
night
upon
the
way;
and
between
Hammersmith
and
Fulham
they
were
overturned,
the
royal
occupants
of
the
coach
being
landed
in
a
quagmire.
A
year
or
two
after
this,
Lord
Hervey
wrote
that
"the
road
between
this
place
[Kensington]
and
London
is
grown
so
infamously
bad,
that
we
live
here
in
the
same
solitude
as
we
would
do
if
cast
on
a
rock
in
the
middle
of
the
ocean;
and
all
the
Londoners
tell
us
that
there
is
between
them
and
us
an
impassable
gulf
of
mud."
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