for the better accommodation of passengers, will be altered to a new genteel, two-end, glass coach machine, being on steel springs, exceeding light, and easy to go in ten days in summer and twelve in winter; to set out the FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, and continue it from HOSEA EASTGATE’S, the COACH AND HORSES in DEAN STREET, SOHO, LONDON, and from JOHN SOMERVILLE’S in the CANONGATE, EDINBURGH, every other Tuesday, and meet at BURROW BRIDGE on Saturday night and set out from thence on Monday morning, and get to LONDON and EDINBURGH on Friday. In winter to set out from LONDON to EDINBURGH every other (alternate) Monday morning, and to go to BURROW BRIDGE on Saturday night. Passengers to pay as usual. Performed, if God permits, by Your dutiful servant, HOSEA EASTGATE. Even Hosea Eastgate’s conveyance stands forth as a miracle of swiftness and frequency when compared with the coach of 1763, which set out once a month and took a _fortnight_, _if the weather was favourable_! Probably this degeneracy of coaches was due to the practice of travellers clubbing together to hire a post-chaise for the journey. This was a plan eminently characteristic of the Scottish mind. It both secured quicker travelling and saved expense. The Edinburgh papers of that time often contained advertisements inquiring for a fellow-passenger to share these costs and charges. Edinburgh, as a matter of fact, even now a far cry, was beyond the ken of most Londoners in those times, and London was to Edinburgh folks a place dimly heard of, and never to be visited, save perhaps once in a lifetime. York, half-way, was better known, and was well supplied with coaches. The “Black Swan” in Coney Street, York, received and sent forth a coach—in after years known as the “York Old Coach”—so early as 1698. This appears to have always laid up for the winter and come out again in April, like the cuckoo, as a harbinger of spring. One of these spring announcements was discovered, some years since, in an old drawer at the “Black Swan.” It runs:— YORK Four Days Stage-Coach. _Begins on Friday the_ 12_th_ _of April_ 1706. ALL that are defirous to pafs from _London_ to _York_, or from York to London, or any other Place on that Road; Let them Repair to the _Black Swan_ in _Holbourn_ in _London_, and to the _Black Swan_ in _Coney Street_ in _York_. At both which Places they may be received in a Stage Coach every _Monday_, _Wednefday_, and _Friday_, which performs the whole Journey in Four Days (_if God permits_). And fets forth at Five in the Morning.