A famous appendix, devoted mainly to the state of English roads, appeared in the second volume of Daniel Defoe’s Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–26). Though cited on countless occasions by historians over almost three centuries, the text has never been properly edited with detailed attention to its coverage of the newly emergent method of maintaining roads through the establishment of turnpike trusts. In default, this study seeks to describe major features of the account, to indicate its timeliness, and to set out the factors which enabled Defoe to provide an unrivalled picture of the communications network of his time. The appendix carries even more weight because it fills out a comprehensive survey of road conditions throughout the text, as part of the author’s overall design in the Tour. This shows the interdependence of separate regions of the country, bound together in a system centred on London.

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对第一条收费公路进行道路测试。丹尼尔笛福对英国高速公路的描述的持久价值

一个著名的附录，主要致力于英国道路的状况，出现在丹尼尔·笛福的《大不列颠全岛之旅》（1724-26 年）的第二卷中。尽管在近三个世纪里被历史学家无数次引用，但该文本从未经过适当的编辑，并没有详细关注通过建立收费公路信托来维护道路的新方法。默认情况下，本研究旨在描述该帐户的主要特征，表明其及时性，并列出使笛福能够提供他那个时代的通信网络无与伦比的图景的因素。附录具有更大的分量，因为它在整个文本中填写了对道路状况的综合调查，作为作者在巡回赛中总体设计的一部分。