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ADVERTISEMENT. Thus, the distance is given for Shooter's Hill in the third and fourth columns, eight miles one furlong ; and in the continuation of the Road to Dartford you find the measurement to that place from London to be fourteen miles six furlongs

General Directions for tracing the Roads.

Suppose you want the Road from London to Doncaster— look for the name of that place in the Index to the Direct Roads from London, and the figure opposite to it (351) refers to the page in which is that part of the Road containing Doncaster, though the description of the Road in which it is situated (being that from London to Carlisle and Glasgow) begins in page 343, and ends in page 360.

In describing the lesser Roads branching from the greater, the last remarkable place on the great Road, or the spot where the lesser turns off, is first given, with a reference to the page in which you will find the Road so far as to that place; and afterwards the Branch is continued: as, for instance, to find the Road from London to Weymouth, the Index refers you for Weymouth to page 84, where you find it in the following form, vix.

By which it appears you are referred to page 56 for this Road as far as Dorchester (the last remarkable place on the great Road); and the remainder of the Road to Weymouth is given after the above form in page 84, as directed by the Index. These References are made use of in order to prevent the numberless repetitions, which would otherwise unavoidably occur, and thereby swell the Book to an inconvenient size.

The Index to the Cross Roads, it is conceived, is so copious and explicit, as to require no further explanation than what is given at the beginning of it.