. 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 .. . traffic of horses and carriages, which roads are kept dry,and also moist, as the season may require, but the foot-paths for pedestrians are more numerous and commodiousthan in any other country: yet, for all this, the Englishare said to walk on foot less than the people of any othernation. Sign-posts are also numerous, for the ready in-formation of every traveller, whether on foot or on horse-back, as to his route, and
. 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 .. . traffic of horses and carriages, which roads are kept dry,and also moist, as the season may require, but the foot-paths for pedestrians are more numerous and commodiousthan in any other country: yet, for all this, the Englishare said to walk on foot less than the people of any othernation. Sign-posts are also numerous, for the ready in-formation of every traveller, whether on foot or on horse-back, as to his route, and the readiest path whereby toarrive at his destination. But since roads, admirable and useful as they are,would have their usefulness greatly curtailed were theyconfined to land only, especially in a country like ourown, abounding in rivers and artificial streams of waterof so many kinds and dimensions, we come now to con-sider a more difficult and elaborate description of road,which is carried over the surface of water, and serves theuseful purpose of connecting ordinary roads , however, is an extensive subject, to which we mustdevote the next two Direction-Post.
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