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alem to Boston, in 1772 one from Marblehead, and an advertisement of the line from Newburyport may be seen in the Boston Gazelle, May 10, 1773. With what pleasure these coaches must have been watched as they came bowling along the Salem road, swinging through the market-place over the bridge, stopping at the Royal Oak, Blanchard's or the Admiral Vernon Tavern. Travel was interrupted by the Revolution, and when resumed at its close, gradually increased. The building of Malden and Chelsea bridges over the Mystic, and the joining of Charlestown and Boston by a bridge, gave an added impetus to travel, but turned some away from Medford. Schedules of the roads leading from Boston, giving the distances from town to town, and later the names and distances from each other of inns of established reputation, were printed in early almanacs and similar publications. After 1805 we find the stage-coach lines inserted in Thomas' Almanac, the times of arrival and departure, the place of