Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. =ENGLISH PEN ARTISTS OF TO-DAY=: Examples of their work, with some Criticisms and Appreciations. Super royal 4to, £3 3_s._ net. =THE BRIGHTON ROAD=: Old Times and New on a Classic Highway. With 95 Illustrations by the Author and from old prints. Demy 8vo, 16_s._ =FROM PADDINGTON TO PENZANCE=: The Record of a Summer Tramp. With 105 Illustrations by the Author. Demy 8vo, 16_s._ =A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF DRAWING FOR MODERN METHODS OF REPRODUCTION.= Illustrated by the Author and others. Demy 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ =THE MARCHES OF WALES=: Notes and Impressions on the Welsh Borders, from the Severn Sea to the Sands o' Dee. With 115 Illustrations by the Author and from old-time portraits. Demy 8vo, 16_s._ =REVOLTED WOMAN=: Past, Present, and to Come. Illustrated by the Author and from old-time portraits. Demy 8vo, 5_s._ net. =THE DOVER ROAD=: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike. With 100 Illustrations by the Author and from other sources. Demy 8vo. [_In the Press._ [Illustration: "_Till, woe is me, so lubberly, The vermin came and pressed me._" _From a painting by George Morland._] _THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIES: TO-DAY AND IN DAYS OF OLD._ BY CHARLES G. HARPER, AUTHOR OF The Brighton Road, Marches of Wales, Drawing for Reproduction, &c., &c., &c. [Illustration] _Illustrated by the Author, and from Old-time Prints and Pictures._ LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL LIMITED 1895 (_All Rights Reserved._) RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON & BUNGAY. TO HENRY REICHARDT, ESQ. _My dear Reichardt,_ _Here is the result of two years' hard work for your perusal; the outcome of delving amid musty, dusty files of by-gone newspapers; of research among forgotten books, and pamphlets curious and controversial; of country jaunts along this old road both for pleasures sake and for taking the notes and sketches that go towards making up the story of this old highway._ _You will appreciate, more than most, the difficulties of contriving a well-ordered narrative of times so clean forgotten as those of old-road travel, and better still will you perceive the largeness of the task of transmuting the notes and sketches of this undertaking into paper and print. Hence this dedication._ _Yours, &c._, CHARLES G. HARPER. Preface