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CHAPTER III. ON OLD ROADS AND SLOW COACHES. If we seem in this
chapter to make a divergence from the stream of postal history, it
is only to make passing reference to the tributaries which helped
to feed the main stream. The condition of the roads, and no less
the modes of travelling, bore a most intimate relationship, at all
the points in its history, to the development of the post-office
system and its communications throughout the kingdom. The
seventeenth century, as we have seen, was eventful in important
postal improvements; the period was, comparatively speaking, very
fruitful also in great changes and improvements in the internal
character of the country. No question that the progress of the
former depended greatly on the state of the latter. James the
First, whatever might be his character in other respects, was
indefatigable in his exertions to open out the resources of his
kingdom. The fathers of civil engineering, such as Vermuyden and
Sir Hugh Myddleton, lived during his reign, and both these eminent
men were employed under his auspices, either in making roads,
draining the fen country, improving the metropolis, or in some
other equally useful scheme. The troubles of the succeeding reign
had the effect of frustrating the development of various schemes of
public utility proposed and eagerly sanctioned by James. Under the
Commonwealth, and at intervals during the two succeeding reigns,
many useful improvements of no ordinary moment were carried out. In
the provinces, though considerable advances had been made in this
respect during the century, travelling was still exceedingly
difficult. In 1640, perhaps the Dover Road, owing to the great
extent of continental traffic constantly kept up, was the best in
England; yet three or four days were usually taken to trave...
General
| Imprint: |
Kessinger Publishing Co
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2009 |
| First published: |
October 2009 |
| Authors: |
William Lewins
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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| Pages: |
380 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-120-29149-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-120-29149-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781120291493 |
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