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Updated: June 11, 2025
The Governor-General ordered frozen food to be got ready for Meares's journey. The sledges were horse-drawn between the post-houses. Mr. Rogers, the English manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank of Nikolievsk, helped Meares considerably in securing the dogs. Most of them were picked up in the neighbourhood of that place, but were not chosen before they had been given some hard driving tests.
Now, he had seen such a thing at several of the post-houses on the road, and he remembered to have heard one sounded on the night they slept in the mountains, when the travellers arrived late, and prevented the projected assassination.
The day before yesterday we received a long, interesting letter from him, which gave us of the particulars as well as of the whole a more complete idea than the papers can give us. People assemble in groups round the post-houses to receive the papers as they arrive. I have extracted from my cousin's letter what has struck me most, and send thee these extracts in a supplement.
Darius united the most distant parts of his empire by postal routes, along which at moderate intervals were maintained post-houses, with relays of horses, primarily for the use of the government, but at the service of the traveller or private trader when not needed for business of state.
They found post-houses at every half dozen miles apart, with a good carriage-road; they passed by a succession of villages, through a flat country covered with rice and sugar-cane, interspersed with large belts of wood. But those were villages concealed by groves of fruit trees. On their way, they stopped to see a sugar manufactory a Belgian partnership.
Post-houses were opened at all the most important centres in Ulster, between which messages were transmitted by despatch-rider or signal according to the nature of the intervening country. Along the coast of Down and Antrim the organisation of signals was complete and effective.
Here and there forts or post-houses are found, garrisoned by the wild Gauchos their appearance in keeping with the scenery. The huts are generally built of the stalks of huge thistles, and are sometimes mere enclosures, destitute of roofs.
We travelled to Kasvin, halfway to Tehran, over the execrable road which leads from Resht. For the first forty miles the landscape was lovely from wooded slopes, green growth and clear running water. The post-houses are just as they were ill-provided, and affording the very smallest degree of comfort that it is possible for a 'rest-house' to give.
It is true that a second route the one of which Michael had just spoken avoiding the slight detour by Perm, also connects Kasan with Ishim. It is perhaps shorter than the other, but this advantage is much diminished by the absence of post-houses, the bad roads, and lack of villages.
Its surface is rough and uneven, as if it had been tumbled about at some former period; it is dotted with wild bushes; and here and there lonely mounds rise to diversify it. There are no houses on it, save the post-houses, which are square, tower-like buildings, having the stables below and the dwellings above.
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