Coaching days and coaching ways . proceeding ; and here the great Barry who hatedpride, overcame, as he delicately puts it, this vicein his haughty spouse. To become geographical for a moment, it is atAndover, or to be quite accurate, half a mile out of thetown, that the two great coaching roads to the West ofEngland diverge—one going by Little Ann, LittleWallop, Lobton Corner, and Winterslow I Tut (celebrated I 2 ri6 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS as the residence of Hazlitt, and as the scene, on theevening of October 20; 1816, of an attack by an escapedlioness on the Exeter Mail) to Salisbu
Coaching days and coaching ways . proceeding ; and here the great Barry who hatedpride, overcame, as he delicately puts it, this vicein his haughty spouse. To become geographical for a moment, it is atAndover, or to be quite accurate, half a mile out of thetown, that the two great coaching roads to the West ofEngland diverge—one going by Little Ann, LittleWallop, Lobton Corner, and Winterslow I Tut (celebrated I 2 ri6 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS as the residence of Hazlitt, and as the scene, on theevening of October 20; 1816, of an attack by an escapedlioness on the Exeter Mail) to Salisbury ; the otherroute being by Wcyhill, Mullens Pond, Park House,Amesbury, and thence to Exeter by Mere, Wincanton,and Ilminster. Of this road, which was the one takenby the Telegraph, more anon. The Quicksilver, theother crack coach on the Great Western road, which. Barry Lyndon Cracks a Bottle. was timed eighteen hours for the 175 miles, changedhorses at Salisbury, which is one of the mostpicturesque towns in the south of England, and will makea convenient halting-place for me, it being situatealmost exactly half way between Exeter and London. The town of Salisbury, which is eighty miles sevenfurlongs from Hyde Park Corner, is chiefly remarkablefor its cathedral ; and it owes this agreeable notoriety tothe north wind. This may sound strange in the earsof those who have not, attired as shepherds, highwaymen THE EXETER ROAD 117 or huntsmen, braved the elements in the surroundingplain. Those however who have enjoyed this fortune,will not be surprised to learn, that when the winds *s ?r--< * -^
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