average for the whole Journey was twentyfour Miles per Day.

The weather being warm in the month of August, the plan was to drive a Stage before Breakfast, a second Stage to an early Dinner, the last Stage so as to reach the end of the day's Journey as early as seven o'clock.

To have travelled the same distance (760 Miles) in a Post Chaise, would have cost (including Turnpikes and Post Boys) about £70. Our expenses for Carriage, Horses, and Coachman, were as under, viz.

The Chariot, at 2 Guineas per Week ..

£. s. d.

14 2 0

Horses at 6 Guineas per Week...... 33 6 0

Coachman, 6s. 6d. per Day......

12 0 0

59 8 0

The expenses of Two Persons (Man and Wife) for Eating and Sleeping, &c. while Travelling thirty-seven days, was £58. 12s.— and including the cost of the Horses and Carriage, &c. about £3. 3s. 6d. per day.

Average charge for Tea, for Two, from 3s. 6d. to 5s.

Breakfasts, the same.

Bed, 3s. to 4s.

From the above statement of £59. 8s. against the expense of Posting, considered about £70, there is a saving of about Ten Pounds in such a Journey, by hiring a Carriage and Horses for the time.

However, as this Journey could have been performed with Post Horses as easily in nine Days as it was in thirty-seven, and expedition been required, if we calculate the extra expense of Eating and Sleeping, while on the Road, for the other twenty-eight days, at only 30s. per Day, it would amount to £42. The expense, instead of being a saving of £10. travelling such a distance with your own Horses, makes your expenses amount to £32. more.

As respects the power of Horses to travel at the rate this Journey was taken, it should

be remarked, that the best possible care was taken of them; and the Horses, though young and unseasoned, were not considered to have suffered; yet the Post Master has declined to furnish Horses on a similar occasion on the same terms, thinking that the work was rather too heavy for them, and that more time ought to be allowed to travel the same distance.

EXPENSES

OF

TRAVELLING POST.

Do not permit the Postilion to flog his Horses towards any house he pleases; most of them have private motives to prefer some Inns to others-inquire of the Post Master or Innkeepers of the first reputation, for a List of the best houses of accommodation which are to be met with in the places through which you pass; their veracity is at least more to be depended upon than that of the Drivers.

The customary Fee to the Post Boys, is about three-pence per Mile; i. e. they seldom

get less than three shillings, nor more than four shillings, at the end of the Stage.

As the Horses are changed every ten or twelve Miles, and the Carriage is so light, the increased Expedition from having Four Horses, is not half so great as may be imagined, unless you have to ascend very steep Hills. The Expense is double.

If your Luggage is light and the Road even and good,

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Money will make the Mare to go;"

and an additional Shilling to the Post Boy will carry you on as briskly as an additional pair of Horses.

It would be a great Improvement in Post Chaises, if there was a proper seat behind for the accommodation of a Servant, and ample room before for the stowage of Luggage.

A Tour taken with Post Horses in a