ADVERTISEMENT.
FIFTH EDITION.
Anxious to preserve the good opinion of the Public, the Proprietor has used his utmost endeavours to correct those errors to which a publication of this description must always be liable; and he has so arranged the Remarks which accompany the Roads, as that they and the Route to which they refer, present themselves to the eye of the reader at the same time.
To the Population, and Number of Houses in each Town, given from the returns made to Parliament—the Time of the Mail's Arrival at and Departure from each Town—the specification of the corporate Towns, and of those at which the Assizes are held—the Course of the Rivers crossed on the Routes, and the Line of the navigable Canals, describing their length, and showing the places through which they pass—the Inns on the road which supply Post Horses and Carriages; also, those Inns in the Metropolis whence the Mail and Stage Coaches depart (showing the Route they take by reference to the Itinerary; the Time of their Departure from London, and Arrival at their respective Inns in the Country; likewise the Time of their Departure thence, and Arrival in Town)—several additional Cross Roads—the Circuits of the Judges—the Rates of Postage in Great Britain—with Maps of the Isle of Wight, the Environs of London, Bath, Brighton, Margate, and Cheltenham, are added Routes to upwards of NINE THOUSAND Places, lying off from the main Roads, and which will not be found in any other work of this description.
EIGHTH EDITION.
The Author, grateful for the patronage with which the Public has honoured his Work, once more offers his grateful acknowledgments. In the present Edition he begs to observe, that several alterations have been made in the Roads; and that the Account of the Gentlemen's Seats has been thoroughly revised, and several additional ones inserted. The following IMPORTANT ADDITION is also made—a List of the PROVINCIAL STAGE COACHES, pointing out to the Traveller the most ready means of communication with every considerable town throughout the kingdom.
