98 THE POSTMARKS OF THE BRITISH ISLES\ FROM mO.The following are types of the various single date-stamps in use in the Scotchprovincial offices (Figs. 633-652).1843^'>y<^.F!g. 633.o-i^*^,Fig. 634. Fig. 635. Fig. 636.^^^^O^O ^ SE30 r^O O <^ H ,^ >''^ g'^ 1646 <VT*Fig. 63?. Fig. 638. Fig. 639. Fig. 640.O 1848,^A^ A <^V K '^\SC659 ^ ' ' ^^27'Fig. 611.Fig. 642.Fig. 643. Fig. 644.f NO 4^cINVERN£SS>AU IIa B tnJA 15Fig. 6i5.Fig. 646.Fig. 647. Fig. 648.'.NOn ;Fig. 650. Fig. 651. Fig. 652.
;"SCOTLAND.99In Scotland for many years the conveyance of mails was in a transitory state,which was due to the mixed system of railway, mail coach, and other modes of conveyance,which in many parts of the country were continually being altered, necessitatingthe establishment of new postal routes. These alterations frequently caused irregularity,and in many cases serious delays in the arrival of mails ; for instance, mails fromPerth, Forfar, and Aberdeen, on their way to the counties of Ross, Sutherland, andCaithness, were for a lengthened period detained at Inverness for sixteen or seventeenhours. The explanation of this delay was that, under the old mail coach system, thenorth and south mails used to meet the east and west at appointed hours to delivertheir several mails at regular stations. But under the mixed system of railway andmail coach, the times not coinciding, such delays were unavoidable, until extensivearrangements could be made to dovetail the system properly. To explain the extentof such arrangements we will take the Highland post, which, starting from Glasgow,travelled by way of Greenock and Kilmun, or Lochgoil, to Inverary, and from thence toOban, by way of Dalmally. This post for a considerable distance traversed a countrywithout population.Steamboats plying from Greenock and the ports on the Clyde, and in Lochgoil,Loch Long, etc., which could have conveyed the mails to convenient points, refused todo so unless paid exorbitant terms.Opposition vessels, however, started in 1848, which were successful in breakingdown the monopoly of traffic, and a few years later a regular mail service was arrangedby steamers from Greenock to Dunoon and Rothesay, each way twice daily six days aweek in winter, and three times daily six days a week in summer. Another steamercarried the mails to Tarbert and Ardrishaig each way once daily throughout the year,and another plied once daily between Greenock and Kilmun.The Sutherlandshire posts were for many years maintained jointly at the cost ofthe public and the Duke of Sutherland. The principal office in 1851 was Golspie, fromwhich the west and north letters were dispatched twice a week ; the return posts beingalso twice a week. The course of these posts was to Lairg, where the post divergedthat to the west crossing or fording the Shin river and proceeding by Rosehall Assynt toLochinver, about sixty-six miles through a country but sparsely inhabited. The Scouriepost, diverging from Assynt, crossed the Kyle Ker ferry to Scourie, a distance of abouteleven miles. The Tongue post from Golspie proceeded direct to Lairg with the westpost, and from thence by Alnaharra to Tongue ; from the last place the mail wasconveyed by a foot messenger across the Tongue and Hilem ferries to Durness.Between Tongue and Thurso there was a regular mail service three times a week. Thepost to the south travelled from Lairg through Bonar Bridge to Tain. The innkeeperson all these roads worked the cars conveying the mails, for which service the Post Officepaid them ^200 per annum, and they received in addition about the same amount, inmoney and free stabling, from the Duke of Sutherland. In 1852 the Duke withdrewhis support, and the mail car arrangement was terminated by the innkeepers. Thewhole of this wide district was then arranged to be served by foot posts. This plan wasconsidered most unsatisfactory, and the Duke of Sutherland again agreed to subsidizethe car arrangement by paying ;£ioo a year toward the cost of the posts. The carsemployed carried from four to five passengers.It is among the Scotch rural Post Offices that the most varied types of postmarksare to be found. These marks were impressed in nearly every kind of coloured ink.The straight types are shown in Figs. 653-664.RENFREWKINGEDVARDFig. '663. Marks in use at Sub-Post Towns. Fig- 664.
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