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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
291
With
regard
to
the
question
of
injury
to
the
eyesight
from
railway
travelling,
Dr.
Lewis
may
again
be
supposed
to
speak
authoritatively
when
he
considers
"it
very
injurious
to
allow
the
eyes
to
rest
on
external
objects
near
at
hand,
such
as
telegraph-poles
or
wires,
near
trees
or
hedges,
&c.
whilst
the
train
is
in
motion;"
but,
speaking
of
the
same
subject,
he
"does
not
find
that
in
the
travelling
post-office
much
mischief
is
occasioned
to
the
sight."[159]
When
we
remember
that
the
Post-Office
work
is
generally
performed
by
means
of
a
strong
artificial
light,
and
much
tedious
deciphering
of
the
addresses
of
letters
necessarily
occurs,
as
we
have
seen,
during
travelling,
it
must
be
admitted
that
the
eyesight
is
here
put
to
the
strongest
possible
test.
We
have
now
traced
our
letter,
posted
in
the
metropolis,
through
the
travelling
post-office
into
the
establishment
of
a
provincial
town.
We
shall
follow
it
presently,
and
not
leave
it
till
it
is
properly
delivered
at
the
rural
village
to
which
we
saw
it
addressed;
but
we
must
take
the
opportunities
as
they
occur
to
describe
with
minuteness
each
particular,
whether
bearing
directly
or
collaterally
on
our
subject,
as
well
as
to
add
now
and
then
a
timely
exhortation
to
the
reader.
Thus,
you
are
indignant,
perhaps,
that
a
certain
letter
you
ought
to
have
had
is
not
to
hand
at
the
proper
moment,
but
has
suffered
some
delay
in
transit.
However,
just
think
how
many
letters
you
do
get,
which
come
to
your
desk
as
true
as
the
needle
to
the
pole.
Just
listen
to
the
old
gentleman
yonder
as
he
tells
how
long
the
same
business
letter
from
a
certain
old-established
house
used
to
be
in
arriving,
and
what
was
paid
for
it
when
it
did
arrive.
Above
all,
pray
think
of
the
travelling
caged
officials--those
wingless
birds
of
the
Post-Office--and
of
what
they
go
through
o'
nights
in
order
that
you
may
have
your
letter
or
your
newspaper--posted
yesterday
in
some
quiet
corner
of
the
country
500
or
600
miles
away--with
your
buttered
toast
to
breakfast
in
town!
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