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 TABLES, shewing the immediate Route from the Metropolis to upwards of 9,000 Places lying off from the Main Roads throughout ENGLAND and WALES. The following Tables are intended to shew the immediate Route from the Metro- polis to those places which, lying off from the Main Road, could not be described in the body of the work. References are added shewing the Route to be taken by the Traveller, as also the place on the road nearest to that which is sought. EXAMPLE:-Suppose you want the Road from London to Abbenhall,-refer for that place in this Table, and you will find it described 2 mls. l. (2 miles to the left) of Longhope, which place, as arranged in the next column, will be found in page 196, and your Route will therefore be directed through Uxbridge, Beaconsfield, High Wycombe, Oxford, Witney, Northleach, Cheltenham, and Gloucester, to Longhope, where, as expressed in the Table, you turn to the left, and at about the distance of 2 miles is situate Abbenhall, man Note. In selecting the roads to which the references are made, we have con- sidered it an accommodation to select those (when it could be done) on which stage. coaches travel-it may also be proper to observe that where the traveller may re- to be forwarded by Post chaise, he must oftentimes stop short of our refer. ence, or otherwise proceed to the next stage beyond it—as in the above example, he must either stop at Gloucester, or proceed to Ross, the next stage from Gloucester.

The direction r and l are not to be understood always to mean directly right and left of the places referred to, but right and left of the road on which you are travelling, as the places sought will in many instances lie forward, or obliquely, of the reference, in a direction thus,

in such case, we have signified the same by adding an o to the letters r and l.—Thus r. o. right oblique, l. o. left oblique,