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ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
1.—THE ROAD AND THE RAILWAY.
Page
Roman Road-makers
Course of the four Roman Trunk-roads
Coasting Trade in 1489 .
Letter of the Bishop of Durham to Sir John Paston
Highways of the Sixteenth Century .
First Turnpike Act in 1663
.
11
Reign of Elizabeth.
Statute for the Repair of Roads in the Reign of
and Mary . :
· · · ·
State of the Highway from London to York in the Reign
of Charles II. '.
Mode of Conveyance in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries
Equestrian Travelling in the Seventeen Sir Robert Carey's Ride from London to Edinburgh •
Days before the Post
Establishment of the Home Post-office in 1635
Establishment of the General Post-office in 1660 .
The Country Post-master . . . . . .
The Carriers of England . . . . .
The Passenger-wagon .
The Pack-horse . . . . . . .
Hagbush-lane . . .
A A A A A
12
Page Parson Adams's Race with the Coach
8
Description of the Stage-coachmen in Fieldin
age to Lisbon'.
Travelling by Private Carriages in the Eighteent
tury Description of the Journey of a Yorkshire Family
London in the Provoked Husband'. . Extension of Turnpike-roads after the Peace of Paris . Parliament petitioned against the Extension of Turn-
pike-roads.
Dr. Johnson's Opinion about the Effect of Turnpik
roads.
Establishment of the Mail
A Ten Miles' Ride on the Holyhead Mail
The Coachmen of the Present Day
4
Washington Irving's English Coachman of 1820 .
Turnpike-roads in 1839 . . .
4| Poetical Elements of the Railway
Poetical Elements of the Roi....
•
Roger North's Description of a Newcastle Railway in
1680 . .
Opposition to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in
1830
Totul expended on the Railways of the United Kingdom
Magnificence of the Railway System
The Courier from London to Edinburgh in the Reign of
Queen Elizabeth . . .
Post office Arrangements of the present day between
London and Edinburgh . .
? Post-office Communication between London and Man-
. . . . The Railroad and its Allie's . .
Successful Invasion rendered impossible by the Working
7 of the Railroad System . . . . . 15
8 The Real Work of the Railway . . . . .
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II.—THE SAIL AND THE STEAMER.
nime effected by Modern Travelling Ar | Pleasure Trips froin Dundee to the Continent
. . . . . . 18 | Ports on the Eastern Coast of England . . .
. . 18 The Tyne . . .
18 | The Old Water-transit from the Tyne to the Thames
Steam Navigation to and from Kingston-upon-Hull
18
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boat on the Clyde..
Changes in the Steam-traffic of Hull . . .
ment of Post-offin cu , . . 18 Steam Communication between Hull and Goole. .
Pleasure austablishments of Gl e ts. · 18 The Barton Ferry
. . . .
Steame irips on the Ciuda" Vlasgow · · · 19 | Rail and Steamer Traffic on the Eastern Coast of Eng-
nveyances increased by the Spread of Railways
land . .
The Shipping of the Thames . . . .
20 | The Up-river Steamers on the Thames
20 River Transit from Gravesend to London in Past Times
20 The Long Ferry . . . .
20 | Revision of the Tharnes Boating Arrangements in 12
| Regulation of the Long Ferry in 1573
20 Description, in the Gotham Swan,' of a Voyage to
Gravesend in 1736 .
21 Trip to Gravesend in a Tiit-boat in 1732'..