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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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"Several
mail-coaches
being
still
missing
that
were
obstructed
in
the
snow
since
the
1st
February
last,
this
is
to
desire
you
will
immediately
represent
to
me
an
account
of
all
spare
patent
mail-coaches
that
are
in
the
stage
where
you
travel
over,
whether
they
are
regular
stationed
mail-coaches
or
extra
spare
coaches,
and
the
exact
place
where
they
are,
either
in
barn,
field,
yard,
or
coach-house,
and
the
condition
they
are
in,
and
if
they
have
seats,
rugs,
and
windows
complete."
So
that
here,
after
a
lapse
of
about
three
months,
the
Post-office
had
not
recovered
the
use
of
all
its
mail-coaches,
and
was
beginning
to
hunt
up
the
missing
vehicles.
Another
snowstorm
occurred
in
January
1814,
evidence
of
which,
from
a
passenger's
point
of
view,
is
furnished
by
Macready
in
his
'Reminiscences.'
He
wrote
as
follows:--
"The
snow
was
falling
fast,
and
had
already
drifted
so
high
between
the
Ross
Inn
and
Berwick-on-Tweed
that
it
had
been
necessary
to
cut
a
passage
for
carriages
for
some
miles.
We
did
not
reach
Newcastle
until
nearly
two
hours
after
midnight:
and
fortunate
was
it
for
the
theatre
and
ourselves
that
we
had
not
delayed
our
journey,
for
the
next
day
the
mails
were
stopped;
nor
for
more
than
six
weeks
was
there
any
conveyance
by
carriage
between
Edinburgh
and
Newcastle.
After
some
weeks
a
passage
was
cut
through
the
snow
for
the
guards
to
carry
the
mails
on
horseback,
but
for
a
length
of
time
the
communications
every
way
were
very
irregular."
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