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 .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 267
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… … Hacknev-Cab. now nearly superseded by more safe and convenient closevehicles, some on two wheels, and others on four, of whichthe forms are very various. THE OMNIBUS. 255 But a still greater change was made when vehiclesperforming stated and fixed journeys, were allowed to tra-verse the London…
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