, or-namented with bright nails and redwheels. The coachman took hisseat on the box, covered with a ham-mer cloth. This seat was really abox, and a thing for necessary use,for in it were carried hammer, nails,pincers, rope, and other articleswherewith to repair the coach in caseof accident; and… … left open when under-going repairs, with nolight but a farthing can-dle in a dirty lanternto give notice of dangerto the hurrying cha-rioteer. The establishment of hackney-coaches led tothat of stage-coaches, and Mr. Markland, in hisvaluable paper in the Archseologia, notices,from the Diary of Mr.…
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