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The
GREAT NORTH ROAD

The Old Mail Road to Scotland

By CHARLES G. HARPER

LONDON TO YORK

Illustrated by the Author,and from old-time
Prints and Pictures

London:
CECIL PALMER
Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street, W.C. 1

p. iiFirst published in 1901
Second and Revised edition, 1922

Printed inGreat Britain by C. TINLING & Co., Ltd.,
53, Victoria Street, Liverpool
and 187, Fleet Street, London.

p. iiiIn LovingMemory
OF
Herman Moroney

“I expect to pass through this world butonce.  Any good, therefore, I cando, or any kindness that I can show to anyfellow-creature, let me do it now.  Let me notdefer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this wayagain.”

Attributed to William Penn.

p.vPREFACE.

When the original editionof the “Great NorthRoad” was published—in1901—the motorcar was yet a new thing.  Ithad, in November, 1896, been given by Act ofParliament the freedom of the roads; but, sofar, the character of the nation’s traffic had beencomparatively little changed.  People would stillturn and gaze, interested, at amechanically-propelled vehicle; and few were those folkwho had journeyed the entire distance between London andEdinburgh in one of them.  For motor-car