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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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No
part
of
the
country
could
boast
of
a
satisfactory
condition
of
the
roads,
these
being
everywhere
in
the
same
neglected
and
wretched
state,
and
travellers
who
had
the
misfortune
to
use
them
have
recorded
their
ideas
on
the
subject
in
no
gentle
terms.
Arthur
Young,
who
travelled
much
in
the
middle
of
last
century,
thus
alludes
to
a
road
in
Essex:
"Of
all
the
cursed
roads
that
ever
disgraced
this
kingdom
in
the
very
ages
of
barbarism,
none
ever
equalled
that
from
Billericay
to
the
King's
Head
at
Tilbury.
It
is
for
near
twelve
miles
so
narrow
that
a
mouse
cannot
pass
by
any
carriage.
I
saw
a
fellow
creep
under
his
waggon
to
assist
me
to
lift,
if
possible,
my
chaise
over
a
hedge.
To
add
to
all
the
infamous
circumstances
which
concur
to
plague
a
traveller,
I
must
not
forget
the
eternally
meeting
with
chalk-waggons,
themselves
frequently
stuck
fast,
till
a
collection
of
them
are
in
the
same
situation,
and
twenty
or
thirty
horses
may
be
tacked
to
each
to
draw
them
out
one
by
one."
In
a
somewhat
similar
way
he
describes
the
road
from
Bury
to
Sudbury
in
Suffolk.
Here,
he
says,
"I
was
forced
to
move
as
slow
in
it
as
in
any
unmended
lane
in
Wales.
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