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All that desire ... let them repair to the Coach and Horses at the head of the Canongate every Saturday , or the Black Swan in Holborn every other Monday , at both of which places they may be received in a coach which performs the whole journey in thirteen days without any stoppage -LRB- if God permits -RRB- having eighty able horses . Each passenger paying 4 pounds , 10 shillings for the whole journey , allowing each 20 lbs . weight and all above to pay 6 pence per lb . The coach sets off at six in the morning ' -LRB- you could never have caught it , Francesca ! -RRB- , ` and is performed by Henry Harrison . ' And here is a ` modern improvement , ' forty-two years later . In July 1754 , the Edinburgh Courant advertises the stage-coach drawn by six horses , with a postilion on one of the leaders , as a ` new , genteel , two-end glass machine , hung on steel springs , exceedingly light and easy , to go in ten days in summer and twelve in winter .