yet now overgrown by the forest, or buried deeply in the marsh? Shall we
not for awhile be surveyors of these forgotten highways, and pause beside
the tombs of the kings, or consuls, or Incas, who first levelled them?
The world has moved westward with the daily motion of the earth. Yet, in
the far East lie the most ancient highways--whose pavements once echoed
with the hurrying feet of Nimrod's outposts or the trampling of
Agamemnon's rear-guard. It were well to mark how that ancient chivalry
sped along their causeways.

Nor, on our devious route, shall baiting-places be wanting. Drunken
Barnaby stayed not oftener to prove the ale than we will do:--

"AEgre jam relicto rure
_Securem Aldermanni_--_bury_
Primo petii, qua exosa
Sentina, HOLBURNI ROSA
Me excepit, ordine tali
Appuli GRYPHEM VETERIS BAILEY:
Ubi experrectum lecto
TRES CICONIAS indies specto,
Quo victurus, donec aestas
Rure curas tollet maestas:
Ego etiam et Sodales
Nunc _Galerum Cardinalis_
Visitantes, vi Minervae
Bibimus ad _Cornua Cervi_."

Our inns may not always be found at the roadside; and we may possibly
ever and anon seem to have missed the track altogether. Yet we will come
into the main line in the end, and, I trust, part with kindly feelings,
when the time has come for saying

SISTE VIATOR.

Contents

Introduction 1
The most Ancient Roads 2
The Assyrian Roads 4
Caligula's Whim 5
Carthaginian Roads 6
Grecian Roads 7
Roman Roads 8
Celtic and Germanic Roads 13
Roads in the Dark Ages 15
Insecurity of Travelling 16
The Norman Barons 17
Speed in Travelling 22
Caesar's Journeys 23
Fast Bishops 24
Roman Senators 25
Wolsey's Speed 26
Lord Peterborough 27
Travelling Charges 28
Petruchio's Horse 29
Cotton's