Great North Road The Old Mail Road to Scotland: York to Edinburgh (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland<br><br>AT last we are safely arrived at York perhaps no cause for comment in these days but a circumstance which once upon a time might almost have warranted a special service of prayer and praise in the Minster. One comes to York as the capital of a country rather than of a county for it is a city that seems in more than one sense Metropolitan. Indeed you cannot travel close upon two hundred miles even in England and in these days of swift communication without feeling the need of some dominating city to act partly as a seat of civil and ecclesiastical government and partly as a distributing centre and if something of this need is even yet apparent how much more keenly it must have been felt in those good Old days which were really so bad! A half-way house so to speak between those other capitals of London and Edinburgh York had all the appearance Of a capital in days of Old and has lost but little of it in these.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.