Excerpt from Journey From London to Genoa, Vol. 2: Through England, Portugal, Spain, and France
As there are neither poll-chaifes nor Rage-coaches between the capital of Por-e tugal and that of Spain, thofe who do not chufe to go on mule-back or a-foot from either town to the other, hire fuch, voi tures as ours, which are pretty'well hung and tolerably neat; but fo leifurely drawn on by the mules, that a.man lately ufed to the pofi-chaifes and flyingvmachines of England, has time enough to exert his patience.
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