Alcock, Rutherford, Sir, 1809-1897 · London : Virtue and Co., Ltd. · leaf 154
ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATIONAL LIFE. 141 the running postmen, the one carrying a lantern and the other the bag, or box rather, of despatches, together with the walking figure they have just passed, and the roadside trees giving a contrast of immobility, make together a perfect picture. When I was… … accident happening to one, that the other might snatch up the box, and continue his journey without a moment’s delay. This was only some fifteen years ago, and now Japan has the electric telegraph, railroads, and an organized post-office system, to utilise the most rapid modes of transmitting…
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