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 ADI. 's 1992 DIRECT ROADS. That the Distances may correspond as nearly as possible with the stilestones on these Roads, they are reckoned from the customary to render it useful, a Return Route is added, exhibiting at one view the immediate distance from stage to stage, without the trouble of subtracting ; to which method of calculation the Tra- veller would otherwise find it necessary to resort. The reckoning on this Back Route is also continued to the General Post Office, for the purpose of preserving the plan of the First Edition to those who may consider it essential. Example Page 3.
 * At the conclusion of each Route, where the length is such as

LONDOX to Dover. Dover to LONDON. M F M F M F MF London Bridge to|| || || || || Blackheath — — 5 — Shooter's Hill||3||1||8||1 Bexley Heath||3||1||11||2 Dartford||3||4||14||6 Gravesend||7||—||2||1||6 Rochester||7||1||28||7 Chatham||1||2||30||1 Sittingbourne||9||5||39||6 Ospringe||6||1||45||7 Canterbury||9||3||55||2 Dover||15||6||71||— Canterbury||—||—||15||6 Ospringe||9||3||25||1 Sittingbourne||6||1||31||2 Chatham||9||5||40||7 Rochester||1||2||42||1 Gravesend||7||1||49||2 Dartford||7||—||56||2 Bexley Heath||3||4||59||6 Shooter's Hill||3||1||62||7 Blackheath London Bridge||5||—||71||— G, P, 0.||—||5||71||5
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CROSS ROADS.

To this part of the Work great Additions have also been made, and several Roads introduced, which are not described in any other publication of this nature.—The Index to these Roads is likewise sp arranged as to afford an easy and direct reference to each Route.

SEATS. The Proprietor has to acknowledge infinite obligations to his Friends for numerous Additions and Corrections, which they have kindly communicated, and which have enabled him to extend his List of Seats, and render it as perfect as the nature of the Work