The Road (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Road Even at the present wonder-working period, few greater improvements have been made in any of the useful arts, than in those applied tot he systems of travelling by land. Projectors and projects have multiplied with our years, and the fairy-petted princes of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments were scarcely transported from place to place with more facility or despatch, than Englishmen are at the present moment. From Liverpool to Manchester, thirty-Six miles, in an hour and a half! - surely Dædalus is come amongst as again: but we will, for the present, confine our observations to the road, to coaches, coach-horses, coachmen, and coach-masters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.