The traveller's oracle; or, maxims for locomotion, part 2 (of 2)

• Abusive Language, 321
• Accidents, 81
• Adviser, an experienced, is to be consulted in purchasing a Carriage, 118
• Agreement, form of, 21
• —— articles of, 56
• Articles left in a Hackney Coach, 322
• Axle-trees, 93, 99
• Back-Light of a Coach, 70
• Beggars’ dogs, 89
• Box Coats, 133
• Blundevill on Horses, 278
• Braces, the main, 116
• Buonaparte’s Travelling Chariot, 127
• Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, 163
• Cabriolets, 317
• Carriage, private, its expense compared with the hiring of Hackney Coaches, 286-291
• Carriages and Chariots, criterion for the price of, 5
• ——, care of, 201-204
• ——, travelling, 123
• ——, length of, 109
• Cary, Mr., plan of a new map, 293
• Character of servants, 145
• Chariot, construction of a, 65
• Cheapest mode of keeping a Carriage, 33
• Clock, advantages of a good, 155
• Clover for horses, 253
• Coach, when to call a, 312
• ——, how to call a, 313
• Coach box, 135
• Coachmaking art of, 59
• Coachman, a skilful, 143
• ——’s livery, 26-31
• ——, how to give orders to, 146
• ——, punctuality essential in, 151
• Coat, coachman’s, 134
• ——, how to give a horse a fine, 246
• Colds of horses, 261-266
• Collinge’s axles, 94
• Contracts for building Carriages, 53
• Cook’s Life Preserver for Carriages, 77
• Country houses vacant until July, 139
• Cracked heels, remedy for, 265
• Cushions, seat, 72
• Dashing Iron, the, 17
• Dickey Coach box, 79
• Directions for buying and keeping of an equipage, 1
• —— as to who should examine the linch-pins, 17
• Directory, Quaife’s Hackney Coach, 323
• Diuretic balls for swelled heels, 265
• Dogs, tax on, should be duly enforced, 88
• Doors of Carriages, 209
• Driving, on, 184-191
• Dry coat, importance of a, 134
• Ducrow’s theatrical stud, 219
• Duelling, 228
• Durability of vehicles, 8
• Duties, assessed, on men servants, carriages, and horses, 131
• Elbows of a Carriage, of the, 67
• Embrocation, anti-rheumatic, 135
• Environs of town, expedition to dinner in the, 157
• Equestrian statue of Charles I., 219
• Evening parties, 136
• Examination of a second-hand Carriage, 114
• Exercising of horses, 243
• Expense of keeping a Carriage, 3
• —— keeping a Horse, 11
• Extortion, 321
• Extra charges made by a coach-builder for all additions, 61
• Fares, Hackney Coach, 292-318
• Fifteen good points of a coachman, 165-169
• Fires, how to manage horses in case of, 272
• Foresight of a physician, 137
• Form of a Carriage highly important, 65
• Genteel man described, a, 135
• Gentleman, defined by a negro, 227
• Glass coaches, 49
• Glasses, coach, 69
• Gomersal’s personification of Buonaparte, 219
• Granite Pavement, 101
• Grass, on sending horses to, 257
• Grooming and dressing of horses, 245
• Gruel for horses, 239
• Guineas not obsolete in accounts, 7
• Hackney coaches, choice of, 314
• ——, origin of, 303
• Hackney coachmen, 296, 314
• ——man’s charge for jobbing a saddle-horse, 14
• Hammercloth, 204
• Hanway’s Travels, 226
• Harness, 119
• ——, second-hand, 121
• Hard-Driving, 185
• Hats with gold band, 30
• Hay, how to select, 253
• Holsters, pistol, to the dickey-box, 123
• Horses, choice of, 225
• ——, hints to purchasers of, 223
• ——, to preserve the health of, 238-244
• ——, food and provender of, 249-256
• ——, of a hackney coach, 305, 306
• ——, age recommended for carriage, 21
• Horse, expense of a saddle, 11
• —— balls, 262
• ——dealers, 45
• Horsemen, advice to, 273
• Hostler, derivation of the word, 47
• Hours, early, 139
• Hydrophobia, 83-92
• Imperials, 124
• Inside handles to Carriages, 77
• Inventory, important, 201
• Job, to, or hire a Carriage, 54
• Jobbing Horses, 44
• Knee-boot to Coach box, 135
• Lamps, circular, 106
• Landau, or Landaulet, 52
• Leather, condition of the, 121
• Lining of a Coach, its best colour, 71
• Letter requiring an immediate answer, when useful, 154
• Livery, 26-31
• —— stables, 15
• Locks to the doors of a Carriage, 76
• Luggage, heavy, 322
• Macadamised streets truly beneficial, 99-101
• Map of London, 172
• Markham’s way to wealth, 277
• Master, the good, 133
• Matching of a horse, 23
• Midnight meetings, 138
• —— conversation, 141
• New road from Paddington to Islington, 173
• Newcastle, Duke of, his directions for the management of horses, 230, 246
• Nuisances, public, 83-92
• Oil, 107
• Oil-skin covers, 125
• Old Carriages and Chariot, selling of, 62
• One-horse Carts the cause of accidents, 187
• Open Carriages, 39
• Ornaments of Carriages, 104
• Paint, spare, 210
• Perambulator for measuring distances, 298
• Pembroke, Earl of, 251
• Plated furniture, of, 105
• Posting in Ireland, rates of, 42
• Presents to servants, how rendered advantageous to the donor, 25
• Price of new Carriages, of various denominations, 16
• Profits of a Hackney Coachman, 305
• Provender for horses, 255
• Proverb, useful old, 46
• Punctuality indispensable in a Coachman, 151
• Quaife, Mr., Surveyor to the Board of Hackney Coaches, 296
• Rattling of the Coach, 205
• Reason for Coachmen not liking Collinge’s axle-trees, 96
• Regent’s Park, the, 174
• Repairs of Carriages, 212
• Roads, the commissioners of the, 178
• Rochefort, Monsieur R. de, 250
• Rough-shodding in frosts, 28
• Royal anecdote, 6
• Safety braces, 126
• Screwing the bolts, 204
• Shades, green silk spring sun, 73
• Shafts for a single horse occasionally applied to a Chariot, 20
• Shakspeare, quotations from, 26
• Shoeing, 159
• Soft water preferable for a horse’s drink, 252
• Spikes to fix on the hind standards, 82
• Sleep disturbed by workmen purposely noisy at an early hour, 87
• Sorbière’s description of London, 172
• Springs of Carriages, how best constructed, 108
• ——, cording of, 126
• Stable, the, 266
• Stands, Hackney Coach, 188
• State Coach of George III., 4
• Steps of a Carriage, 210
• Strangers behind a Carriage dangerous, 82
• Straw-yard, 11
• Street Act of the Metropolis, 86
• Streets, care of Carriage in the public, 191
• Street-keepers, 83
• Stuffing of a Carriage preposterous, 69
• Swift, Dean, quotation from, 164
• Symmetry of the Horse, true, 219
• Time, best, to bring out a new Carriage, 60
• Tires of the wheels should be watched, 102
• Tom Thrifty’s maxim, 153
• Tools, a Coachman’s, 170
• Trunk covers, 124
• Turnpikes, 31
• Valetudinarians, kind of springs for Carriages most beneficial to, 169
• Value of well-matched Coach-horses, 23
• Varnished panels, 207
• Varnish, how to remedy cracks in the, 208
• Visits, paying of, 171
• Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the, 48
• Under-springs, 217
• Wager, Duke of Queensberry’s, 221
• Wages, 25
• Washing and cleaning the Carriage and harness, 203
• Wax candles, 106
• Wheels, of, 99
• Wheels, tiring of, 17
• Wicks, lamps with two flat, 107
• Winch for the axle-trees, by whom best kept, 95
• Yellow Chrome, the best colour for a Chariot, 73
• Zinc, ointment for sore heels, 264

THE END.

J. MOYES, TOOK’S COURT, CHANCERY LANE.