Toll on an English road. The toll-keeper is asking for payment before he will allow the coach through. Engraving by Eugène Lami (1829)
I forgot to tell you, in my description of the roads, that one sees no Offices or Clerks. When you enter this island, you will be very carefully inspected at Dover, after which you may travel the length of Great Britain without meeting the least enquiry. If Foreigners receive such treatment, so much the more do Citizens. The Customs posts are set round the circumference of the Kingdom; one is inspected there once and for all.