. Our colonial history from the discovery of America to the close of the revolution. Courier. Early Travel on Horseback. easily in two hours. TheConestoga wagon is an inter-esting relic of the means oftravel people used before thedays of railroads. Travel by water was saferand cheaper than travel byland. Canoes were used onthe small streams; small sail-ing vessels, called shallops,plied along the coast. Thesteamboat had not yet beeninvented. 10 S-ED 142 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ENGLISH SUPREMACY IN AMERICA 163. Communication.—The difficulties of travel made ithard for people to communicate with ea
. Our colonial history from the discovery of America to the close of the revolution. Courier. Early Travel on Horseback. easily in two hours. TheConestoga wagon is an inter-esting relic of the means oftravel people used before thedays of railroads. Travel by water was saferand cheaper than travel byland. Canoes were used onthe small streams; small sail-ing vessels, called shallops,plied along the coast. Thesteamboat had not yet beeninvented. 10 S-ED 142 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ENGLISH SUPREMACY IN AMERICA 163. Communication.—The difficulties of travel made ithard for people to communicate with each other. The tele-graph and telephone had not been invented. It cost so muchto send letters that not very many v^ere written. Letters werecarried by the stage coaches and by couriers on were only two or three mails a week, even between the
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