. The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. . ed with vehic ^s, which are a kindof open omnibus, to convey them to the boundaries oftheir beat, by which much time is saved. Again, inthe afternoon, when the postmen have collected the lettersfrom the various receiving-houses, they have not, as for-merly, to walk to the central-office with them; but mail-carts are placed at certain stations to receive them, andforward them, with great rapidity, to the central
. The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. . ed with vehic ^s, which are a kindof open omnibus, to convey them to the boundaries oftheir beat, by which much time is saved. Again, inthe afternoon, when the postmen have collected the lettersfrom the various receiving-houses, they have not, as for-merly, to walk to the central-office with them; but mail-carts are placed at certain stations to receive them, andforward them, with great rapidity, to the central of the most remarkable changes in metropolitanpublic conveyance, is the substitution of the omnibus forthe stage-coach. A few years back, the streets of Londoncontained few public conveyances, but hackney-coaches;those remnants of the last century,—the last resort ofworn-out coach-horses. These carriages were usually the 254 HACKNEY-COACHES. rejected vehicles of the noble and wealthy;—thus en-during, like the horses, a second and lower grade of ser-vice. Hence it is, that we often see the arms of a distin-guished family painted on the door-panels of this Hackney-Coach. After a time, the cabriolet, or, with that clipping of wordsto which the English are so prone,—the cab, wasestablished. If one person hired a hackney-coach, he hadto pay as much as if four persons rode in it; and it wasprincipally to accommodate parties of one or two persons,that the cab was introduced; its slight make, and theemployment of one horse instead of two, enabling theproprietor to let it at two-thirds of the fare of a hackney-coach. The kind of cabs which our cut represents are
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