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174 ...New Orleans, there appear to be a great many Hackney coached all apparently quite new, with a great deal of silver-plated mounting about them, almost as if they had been intended for civic procession on the scale of our Lord Mayors Show, Each of them is drawn by a very fair pair of horses. I once counted two & thirty of these coaches standing for hire on a rainy day, at the door of the St. Charles's Hotel; and I was told that it was their rule not to move off the stand for less than two dollars, or to take one out to unclear, & bring one back for less that ten dollars.