[32] M'Culloch's Com. Dic. article--"Roads." In the ten years that followed 1750, there were successive turnpike Acts passed for Edinburghshire, for Lanarkshire, and various ways that are connected with Edinburgh and Glasgow. In 1762, Parliament gave £4000 towards building the bridges across the Tweed at Coldstream, making the subservient roads, and afterwards £800 for making a road from Ballantrae to Stranraer, in order to facilitate the passage to Ireland. In 1770, the Parliament began to make annual grants of £6998, for repairing the new roads and building bridges in the Highlands--"Caledonia," by Chalmers, vol. i. p. 36. [33] The Postmaster of Falkirk, writing to the Postmaster-General at the time Mr. Anderson held that office, says--"The carriers carry more letters than the Post," and gives a list of carrier's names, and recommends that their horses be seized. Anderson, MS. Papers. [34] Arnott's "History of Edinburgh," page 538. [35] "Scots Almanac, 1771." [36] Chambers's Gazetteer. [37] 34 George III. cap. 17, 1794. [38] Scots Almanac, 1781. [39] M'Culloch's Com. Dict. article "Roads." [40] Scots Almanac, 1791. [41] Notice of removal of Post Office, Edinburgh, in "Scots Courant, April 1713." [42] Chambers's "Traditions of Edinburgh." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of An Historical Summary of the Post Office in Scotland, by T. B. Lang