. 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 .. . Laplanders on a Journey. CHAPTER XIII. Glances at the modern Roads of Foreign Lands.—Travelling inLapland.—Roads, and Travelling in Norway—Alpine Roads.—Simplon.—Great Saint-Bernard.—The other Alpine Roads. Mount Brenner.—Cornice.—Aurelian Road.—GasparStoeri. —Roads of France. The world which we inhabit offers on its surface greateror less facility for the motions of man. In many casesabsolute difficulties present thems
. 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 .. . Laplanders on a Journey. CHAPTER XIII. Glances at the modern Roads of Foreign Lands.—Travelling inLapland.—Roads, and Travelling in Norway—Alpine Roads.—Simplon.—Great Saint-Bernard.—The other Alpine Roads. Mount Brenner.—Cornice.—Aurelian Road.—GasparStoeri. —Roads of France. The world which we inhabit offers on its surface greateror less facility for the motions of man. In many casesabsolute difficulties present themselves to the traveller ;but these are overcome by the exertion of that distinguish-ing faculty of reason, which enables man to understandthe laws which govern the universe, and to apply them tohis own purposes. If the waters of the ocean oppose hispassage, he constructs ships, avails himself of winds andtides, and floats with ease and rapidity to the land towhich business or pleasure calls him; if wind and tideoppose him, he calls to his assistance the wondrous forceof steam, and defies both wind and tide: if a gulf yawnat his feet, and seem to forbi
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