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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
121
[63]
Memorials
of
his
Time,
vol.
i.
p.
341.
[64]
Dr.
Cleland,
in
his
Statistical
Account
of
Glasgow,
tells
us
that
before
this
time,
viz.
in
1787,
the
course
of
post
from
London
to
Glasgow
was
by
way
of
Edinburgh,
five
days
in
the
week.
Only
five
mails
arrived
in
Glasgow
from
London
on
account
of
no
business
being
transacted
at
the
Edinburgh
Office
on
Sundays.
It
now
occurred,
however,
to
some
one
of
the
astute
managers
of
the
Post-Office,
that
the
sixth
mail,
which
the
Sunday
regulations
of
the
Edinburgh
Office
prevented
being
passed
through
that
medium,
might
be
sent
by
the
mail-coach
to
Carlisle,
while
a
supplementary
coach
should
travel
every
sixth
night
between
Carlisle
and
Glasgow.
This
was
done,
and
the
result
was
the
saving
of
an
entire
day
between
London
and
Glasgow.
The
other
mails
continued,
as
usual,
for
twelve
months
longer,
it
having
taken
the
authorities
the
whole
of
that
time
to
discover
that
the
five
mails,
which
required
five
days
to
reach
Glasgow
by
way
of
Edinburgh,
might,
like
the
sixth,
be
carried
by
way
of
Carlisle,
in
four
days.
Dr.
Cleland,
however,
does
not
seem
to
have
perceived
that
there
might
be
some
other
reason
for
adhering
to
the
old
route,
such
as
increased
outlay,
&c.
[65]
Life
of
Robert
Owen.
Written
by
himself.
London,
1857.
[66]
Smiles'
Lives
of
the
Engineers.
[67]
Ibid.
[68]
History
of
England
during
the
Thirty
Years'
Peace,
vol.
i.
p.
257.
[69]
Ibid.
vol.
ii.
p.
62.
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