Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine 1860-09: Vol 61 Iss 3
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1a ers en it, y ') ly SOME ACCOUNT OF ‘*IT got to London on Saturday last. My says: journey was noe ways pleasant, being forced to ride in the boote all the way; ye company yt came up with me were persons of great quality, My journey’s expense as knights and ladies, was 30s. This travel hath so indisposed mee, yt Lam resolved never to ride up againin ye Mr. Adams, who quotes this passage It may be coach.” from the ‘‘Archmologia,’’ adda: inferred from the foregoing extract that the jouwwney from Lancashire required some days for ita performance ; but even this rate of tra- velling had its iImpeders amongst the objec. tives.” The writer of a tract In the ‘ Harlelan Miscellany,’ of stage-coaches and carriages now travelling on L673, deprecates ‘the multitude ” the roada,”’ and advises Parliament to interfere to suppress them, ‘especially thome within fifty or sixty miles of London.’’ He recommends the others being obliged to travel with one set of horavs, and to be limited to thirty miles in summer, and twenty-five in winter, per diem, Although the legislature was too wise to adopt the recommendation of this ‘slow coach,’ locomotive conveyance made for some time only a tortoise-like progression, So formidable an afuir was the undertaking a journey reckoned, that even from Birmingham to London, a de- parture was a signal for making a will followed by a solemn farewell of wife, children, and household! Slow travelling, and a correspond- ent tardiness of other arrangements, continued toa much later period than might be imagined ; and we read advertisements for ‘that remark- able swift travelling coach, the Fly, which leaves Birmingham on Mondays, and reaches London on the Thursday following.’’ Towards the end of the seventeenth century, improvements began to take place, In ‘* Wood’s Diary,’’ mention is made of a machine whieh completed the journey between Oxford and Lon- don in thirteen hours! The outery lessened, and the imperfect vehicles and bad roads were left to passengers unmolested. What the latter were may be imagined from the fact already alluded to, that when Charles III. of Spain visited England, and Prince George of Denmark went out to meet him, both princes were so impeded by the badness of the roads, that their carriages were obliged to be borne on the shoul- ders of the peasantry, and they were six hours in performing the last nine miles of their journey ! During the eighteenth century, improve- ments were very gradually made in carriages, and but little progress in the rate of travelling. So late as 1760, a journey from Edinburgh to | | | | | | | MODERN COACHES. 207 London occupied eighteen days, a part of the roads being ouly accessible by pack-horses. The insolence and dishonesty of the people employed in the management of these convey- ances far outdid the doings of modern cabmen, In 1733, a writer quoted by Malcolm, declares that ‘those Hackney gentlemen have by their overgrown insolence obliged the gevernment to take notice of them, nnd make laws for their regulation, The particular saucy, impudent behavior of the coachmen in demanding the other twelver or tester above their fare, has been the occasion of jnnumerable quarrels, fighting, and abuses; affronting gentlemen, frightening and ineulting Women; and that no elvil government will, or Indeed ought such rudenesses, to, suffer; and above all, haa been the oecasion of killing several coachmen, by gentlemen that have been provoked by the villanous tongues of those fellows beyond the extent of their pa Thelr dered them #o contemptible and odious in the tlence, intolerable behavior has rene eyes of all degrees of people whatever, that there js more joy seen for one Hackney-coach- man going to the gallows, than for a dozen high- waymen and street-robbers,”’ It will not be within the province of our re- marks to notice the many varieties of carriages that were invented or modified from older in- ventions towards the close of the last century ; the more particularly as prints or drawings of such are to be easily obtained, The coach and chariot were the same in principle; the original one-horse gig of 1754 is seen in Vig. 21, which soon underwent changes both of form and name, and was called Tilbury, Stanhope, Whiskey, Dennett, and Buggy, as the case might be. The French Désobligeant, immortalized by Sterne, in his ‘Sentimental Journey,’’ carried one person only, and was like the fourth of our illustra- Phe American Sulkies are of the same The original Barouche we have tions. construction. engraved, the Landau was only a variety, and the Landaulet still smaller. Phaeton is monstrosity to pass over without cut or com- The original too remarkable a
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