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Rh at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, with nineteen persons on the carriage up a hill one in twelve.

'That he has continued for four hours and a half to travel at the rate of thirty miles per hour.

'That he has found no difficulty in travelling over the worst and most hilly roads.'

Mr. James Stone states that 'thirty-six persons have been carried on one steam-carriage.

'That the engine drew five times its own weight nearly, at the rate of from five to six miles per hour, partly up an inclination.'



They have annexed a list of those local acts in which tolls have been placed on steam, or mechanically propelled carriages.

Mr. Gurney has given the following specimens of the oppressive rates of tolls adopted in several of these acts. On the Liverpool and Prescot Road, Mr. Gurney's carriage would be charged 2l. 8s., while a loaded stage coach would pay only 4s. On the Bathgate Road the same carriage would be charged 1l. 7s. 1d., while a coach drawn by four horses would pay 5s. On the Ashburnham and Totnes Road, Mr. Gurney would have to pay 2l.,