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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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The
same
authority
gives
a
further
picture
of
the
state
of
the
highways
some
twenty
years
later,
when
apparently
little
improvement
had
taken
place
in
their
condition:
"Notwithstanding
the
numerous
Acts
of
Parliament,
of
which
no
less
than
452
were
emitted
between
the
years
1760
and
1764,
for
the
improvement
of
the
principal
highways,
they
still
continued
narrow,
darkened
with
trees,
and
intersected
with
ruts
and
miry
swamps,
through
which
the
progress
of
a
waggon
was
a
work
of
difficulty
and
danger.
One
of
these--the
turnpike
road
from
Preston
to
Wigan--is
thus
described
by
an
angry
tourist
in
1770,
and
the
picture
seems
to
have
been
too
generally
realised
over
the
whole
kingdom:
"To
look
over
a
map,
and
perceive
that
it
is
a
principal
one,
not
only
to
some
towns,
but
even
whole
counties,
one
would
naturally
conclude
it
to
be
at
least
decent;
but
let
me
most
seriously
caution
all
travellers
who
may
accidentally
purpose
to
travel
this
terrible
country,
to
avoid
it
as
they
would
the
devil;
for
a
thousand
to
one
but
they
break
their
necks
or
their
limbs
by
overthrows
or
breakings
down.
They
will
here
meet
with
ruts,
which
I
actually
measured,
four
feet
deep,
and
floating
with
mud
only
from
a
wet
summer;
what,
therefore,
must
they
be
after
a
winter?
The
only
mending
it
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."
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