. The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. . Ei: md Roads in the Scottish. Highlands. CHAPTER XII. The Scottish Highlands.—Their Roads, Carriages, and Horses.—Roads and Travelling in Scotland generally, in the eighteenthcentury.—Old Roman Roads. If roads, travel, and conveyance, were backward, both inthe north and south of England, not yet a century ago,—that, at the same period, they were not much better, orthat in reality they were still worse, in Scotland
. The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. . Ei: md Roads in the Scottish. Highlands. CHAPTER XII. The Scottish Highlands.—Their Roads, Carriages, and Horses.—Roads and Travelling in Scotland generally, in the eighteenthcentury.—Old Roman Roads. If roads, travel, and conveyance, were backward, both inthe north and south of England, not yet a century ago,—that, at the same period, they were not much better, orthat in reality they were still worse, in Scotland, or NorthBritain, and most of all in the Highlands of Scotland,,may easily be thought. Here, in addition to the severityof the climate, and other disadvantages of situation, aremountains, rocks, and torrents to be passed, in the attemptto reach from one place to another; here are but smalland often shallow portions of culturable soil; here ispoverty, and almost famine, to prey upon the bulk of thepopulation; and here, up to the date in question, all im-provement, to be expected from neighbourhood to theperpetual increase of wealth in England, was either pre-vented or retard
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