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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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"The
Bath
and
Bristol
mails,
due
on
Tuesday
morning,
were
abandoned
eighty
miles
from
London,
and
the
mail-bags
brought
up
in
a
postchaise-and-four
by
the
two
guards,
who
reached
London
at
six
o'clock
on
Wednesday
morning.
For
seventeen
miles
of
the
distance
they
had
to
come
across
fields."
"The
Manchester
down-mail
reached
St
Albans,
and
getting
off
the
road
into
a
hollow,
was
upset.
The
guard
returned
to
London
in
a
post-chaise
and
four
horses
with
the
bags
and
passengers."
"About
a
mile
from
St
Albans,
on
the
London
side,
a
chariot
without
horses
was
seen
on
Tuesday
nearly
buried
in
the
snow.
There
were
two
ladies
inside,
who
made
an
earnest
appeal
to
the
mail-guard,
whose
coach
had
got
into
a
drift
nearly
at
the
same
spot.
The
ladies
said
the
postboy
had
left
them
to
go
to
St
Albans
to
get
fresh
cattle,
and
had
been
gone
two
hours.
The
guard
was
unable
to
assist
them,
and
his
mail
being
extracted,
he
pursued
his
journey
for
London,
leaving
the
chariot
and
ladies
in
the
situation
where
they
were
first
seen."
"The
Devonport
mail
arrived
at
half-past
eleven
o'clock.
The
guard,
who
had
travelled
with
it
from
Ilminster,
a
distance
of
140
miles,
states
that
journey
to
have
been
a
most
trying
one
to
both
men
and
cattle.
The
storm
commenced
when
they
reached
Wincanton,
and
never
afterwards
ceased.
The
wind
blew
fresh,
and
the
snow
and
sleet
in
crossing
Salisbury
Plain
were
driving
into
their
faces
so
as
almost
to
blind
them.
Between
Andover
and
Whitchurch
the
mail
was
stuck
fast
in
a
snowdrift,
and
the
horses,
in
attempting
to
get
out,
were
nearly
buried.
The
coachman
got
down,
and
almost
disappeared
in
the
drift
upon
which
he
alighted.
Fortunately,
at
this
juncture,
a
waggon
with
four
horses
came
up,
and
by
unyoking
these
from
the
waggon
and
attaching
them
to
the
mail,
it
was
got
out
of
the
hollow
in
which
it
was
sunk."
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