. How the world travels . POST- CHAISE. use, and ladies rode pillion fashion, sitting on acushion behind the saddle of the horseman. Hired carriages, too, began to be seen in thestreets of Paris, and in 1625 they appeared in COACHING DAYS 17 London. Very few of them were allowed at first,but in 1634 an old sea-captain named Baily estab-lished a stand for hackney coaches near the May-pole in the Strand, and by the end of the century. IN THE WILD WEST. there were no fewer than eight hundred of thesevehicles in the City and suburbs. Stage coaches to carry both passengers andmails were the next in
. How the world travels . POST- CHAISE. use, and ladies rode pillion fashion, sitting on acushion behind the saddle of the horseman. Hired carriages, too, began to be seen in thestreets of Paris, and in 1625 they appeared in COACHING DAYS 17 London. Very few of them were allowed at first,but in 1634 an old sea-captain named Baily estab-lished a stand for hackney coaches near the May-pole in the Strand, and by the end of the century. IN THE WILD WEST. there were no fewer than eight hundred of thesevehicles in the City and suburbs. Stage coaches to carry both passengers andmails were the next innovation, and they weresoon running regularly during summer on threeof the principal high roads of England. 2 18 HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS Nowadays, when we can travel from one endof the country to the other in a few hours, weshould think the old conveyances very slowcoaches indeed, but at the end of the seventeenthand during the eighteenth centuries they werethought marvels of swiftness. It took a week—only a week, people said then—to go fromLondon to York, and the journey to Manchestercould actually be made in four days. In Hogarths pictures we can see what an earlystage coach was like, with its large, clumsywheels, high roof, and an enormous basket at theback in which baggage was carried and wherepassengers who wished to travel cheaply couldsit. Later on this basket developed into an extraback seat, and in a picture paint
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