. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. THE DOVER ROAD 229 that Elizabeth herself comes when she is least expected, finds it watched like a beleaguered fort, and makes a rapid exit, " having brought confusion along with her, and leaving doubt and apprehension ; I confess that it does me good when in the course of these disjointed rambles along the great roads of England I can find some spot haunted by the, to me, charmed figures which throng the pages of the Waverley Novels. Hitherto I have not reaped much o
. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. THE DOVER ROAD 229 that Elizabeth herself comes when she is least expected, finds it watched like a beleaguered fort, and makes a rapid exit, " having brought confusion along with her, and leaving doubt and apprehension ; I confess that it does me good when in the course of these disjointed rambles along the great roads of England I can find some spot haunted by the, to me, charmed figures which throng the pages of the Waverley Novels. Hitherto I have not reaped much of a harvest of joy in this direction, it must be confessed ; but Deptforcl has. -â â---"â - ^4Kf, ^/X^,^" '""^- "i. > 1 r-T:f*â¢fi.''r--Trn«'- Cobham Hall, Rochester. given me my first opportunity ; and the Dover Road, a little further on, will give me my second ; with which remark I think I may leave Deptford altogether, lament- ing that all that can be seen of Sayes Court is now a parish workhouse which stands on its site ; and marvel- ling at the imperial relaxation of Peter the Great who stayed here in 1698 (at the Court, not at the workhouse), and who was wont to unbend a mind wearied with ship- building, by being driven through the world-famous hedges of the garden in a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941; Armour, G. D. (George Denholm), 1864-1949. [London] : Hodder and Stoughton
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