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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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SELBY
MAIL-BAG,
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182
LETTER-BOX
TAKEN
POSSESSION
OF
BY
TOMTITS,
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211
THE
MULREADY
ENVELOPE,
"
285
INTERIOR
OF
AN
OLD
POST-OFFICE,
"
295
THE
POSTMISTRESS
OF
WATFORD,
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299
FORM
OF
POSTMASTER'S
APPOINTMENT,
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301
THE
ROYAL
MAIL.
CHAPTER
I.
OLD
ROADS.
The
present
generation,
who
are
accustomed
to
see
the
streets
of
our
cities
paved
with
wood
or
stone,
or
otherwise
so
laid
out
as
to
provide
a
hard
and
even
surface
suited
to
the
locomotion
of
wheeled
vehicles,
or
who
by
business
or
pleasure
have
been
led
to
journey
over
the
principal
highways
intersecting
the
kingdom
in
every
direction,
can
form
no
idea
of
the
state
of
the
roads
in
this
country
during
the
earlier
years
of
the
Post-office--or
even
in
times
comparatively
recent--unless
their
reading
has
led
them
to
the
perusal
of
accounts
written
by
travellers
of
the
periods
we
now
refer
to.
The
highways
of
the
present
day,
radiating
from
London
and
the
other
large
centres
of
industry,
and
extending
their
arms
to
every
corner
of
the
land,
are
wellnigh
perfect
in
their
kind,
and
present
a
picture
of
careful
and
efficient
maintenance.
Whether
we
look,
for
example,
at
the
great
north
road
leading
from
London,
the
Carlisle
to
Glasgow
road,
or
the
Highland
road
passing
through
Dunkeld,
we
find
the
roads
have
certain
features
in
common:
a
broad
hard
roadway
for
vehicles;
a
neatly
kept
footpath
where
required;
limits
strictly
defined
by
trim
hedges,
stone
walls,
or
palings;
and
means
provided
for
carrying
off
surface-water.
The
picture
will,
of
course,
vary
as
the
traveller
proceeds,
flat
country
alternating
with
undulating
country,
and
wood
or
moorland
with
cultivated
fields;
but
the
chief
characteristics
remain
the
same,
constituting
the
roads
as
worthy
of
the
age
we
live
in.
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