The story of rapid transit . the kingdom languished formeans of rapid transit. Few People, he says,cared to encounter the Difficulties which at-tended the Conveyance of Goods from the Placeswhere they were manufactured to the Marketswhere they were to be disposed of. ... TheNatural Produce of the Country was with Diffi-culty circulated to supply the Necessities of thoseCounties and Trading Towns which wanted, andto dispose of the Superfluity of others whichabounded. . We are now released, headds, from treading the cautious steps of ourForefathers and our very Carriages travel withalmost \vinge
The story of rapid transit . the kingdom languished formeans of rapid transit. Few People, he says,cared to encounter the Difficulties which at-tended the Conveyance of Goods from the Placeswhere they were manufactured to the Marketswhere they were to be disposed of. ... TheNatural Produce of the Country was with Diffi-culty circulated to supply the Necessities of thoseCounties and Trading Towns which wanted, andto dispose of the Superfluity of others whichabounded. . We are now released, headds, from treading the cautious steps of ourForefathers and our very Carriages travel withalmost \vinged expedition between every Townof consequence in the Kingdom and the Metrop-olis. . Despatch, which is the very Lifeand Soul of Business, becomes daily more attain-able by the free Circulation opening in every 2O THE STORY OF RAPID TRANSIT Channel what is adapted to it. . Therenever was a more astonishing Revolution accom-plished in the internal System of any Countrythan has been within the Compass of a few years. r<U3 U <u in that of England. Journies of Business are per-performed with more than double wears the face of Dispatch. InHomers opinion, it was all due to the Refor- BEGINNINGS OF RAPID TRANSIT 21 mation which has been made in our PublickRoads. Abroad the roads and means of locomotionwere, if anything, behind those of England, thenewly introduced cabriolet being a luxury for therich, and in the more populous districts travel-ing was usually done on foot or on horseback incompany, as described by Defoe toward the endof his Robinson Crusoe. The journey fromLisbon to Calais by land took two months inwinter and five or six weeks in summer. While these improvements in land carriageswere taking place, attention was also being paidto the provision of facilities for carriage by were cut to connect various river basins,and in 1758 the idea was revived and finallycarried out, of connecting the Forth and theClyde. In 1758 Brindly had succ
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