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Scotch inns

已有 163 次阅读  2010-04-22 11:40   标签Scotch  inns 

Scotch inns were as bad as the roads; "mean hovels with dirty rooms, dirty food, dirty attend­ants." Servantswithout shoes or stockings, greasy tables with no cloths, butter thick withcows* hairs, no knives and forks, a single drinking-cup for all at the table,filthy smells and sights, were universal; and this when English inns were thepleasantest places on earth. Coach Handbags

 

 

Mail-carriage was even worse than personaltrans­portation ; hence letter-writing was not popular. In 1746 the Londonmail-bag once carried but a single letter from Edinburgh. Coach Crossbody Bags

So little attentionwas paid to the post that as late as 1728 the letters were sometimesnot taken from the mail bag, and were brought back to their original startingplace. Coach Tote Bags

Scotland was in a miserable state of isolation and gloom until theTurnpike Road Act was passed; the building of good roads made a completerevolution of all economic conditions there, as it has everywhere. Coach Bags

 

 

The first railway in America was the QuincyRailroad, or the " Experiment" Railroad, built tocarry stones to Bunker Hill Monument. A tavern-pitcher, com­memorativeof this Quincy road, is shown here. Two views of the Baltimore and OhioRailroad, printed on plates and platters in rich dark blue, are fa­miliar tochina collec­tors. Coach Purses Outlet

 One shows a sta­tionary engine at the top of a hill with anumberof little freight cars at a very singular angle going down a steepgrade. The other displays a primitive locomotive with coachlike passenger cars. Coach Outlet

All the first rail-cars were run byhorse-power.Peter Parley'sFirst Book on Historysays, in the chapter onMaryland. Coach Wallets

The people are building what iscalled a railroad. Coach Bags Outlet

This consists of iron bars laid down along the ground andmade fast, so that carriages with small wheels may run upon them with facility. In this way one horse will be able to draw as much asten horses on a common road. Coach Purses

 

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