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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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These
are
some
of
the
reports,
written
at
the
time,
of
the
disorganisation
of
the
mail-service
in
consequence
of
the
snowstorm.
Some
slight
idea
of
the
magnitude
of
the
drifts
may
be
obtained
from
one
or
two
additional
particulars.
The
mail
proceeding
from
Exeter
for
London
was
five
times
buried
in
the
snow,
and
had
to
be
dug
out.
A
mail-coach
got
off
the
road
seven
miles
from
Louth,
and
went
over
into
a
gravel-pit,
one
of
the
horses
being
killed
and
the
guard
severely
bruised.
So
deeply
was
another
coach
buried
on
this
line
of
road
that
it
took
300
men,
principally
sappers
and
miners,
working
several
hours,
to
make
a
passage
to
the
coach
and
rescue
the
mails
and
passengers.
Near
Chatham
the
snow
lay
to
a
depth
of
30
or
40
feet,
and
the
military
were
turned
out
to
the
number
of
600
to
clear
the
roads.
On
the
line
of
road
from
Chatham
to
Dover,
a
sum
of
L700
was
spent
by
the
road-trustees
in
opening
up
the
road
for
the
resumption
of
traffic,
an
official
report
stating
that
for
26
miles
the
road
"was
blocked
up
by
an
impenetrable
mass
of
snow
varying
from
3
feet
to
18
feet
in
depth."
Between
Leicester
and
Northampton
cuttings
were
made,
just
wide
enough
for
a
coach
to
pass,
where
the
snow
was
heaped
up
to
a
height
of
30,
40,
and
in
some
places
50
feet.
About
a
stage
from
Coventry,
near
a
place
called
Dunchurch,
seventeen
coaches
were
reported
to
be
laid
up
in
the
snow;
and
in
other
parts
of
the
country
a
similar
wholesale
derangement
or
stoppage
of
road-traffic
took
place.
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