. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . al in 18o3—The Campanias First Trip, 381 ; Railways in 1853and in 1893 -The Labradors Quick Passage—A Visit to the MammothCave of Kentucky in 1861 ; My Friend Taken Prisoner by the U. as a Spy During the War, 382-388 ; The Printing Press, 388-390 ; Petrol-eum—Its Origin-I
. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . al in 18o3—The Campanias First Trip, 381 ; Railways in 1853and in 1893 -The Labradors Quick Passage—A Visit to the MammothCave of Kentucky in 1861 ; My Friend Taken Prisoner by the U. as a Spy During the War, 382-388 ; The Printing Press, 388-390 ; Petrol-eum—Its Origin-Its Discovery in Ontario—Some Statistics of Shipments, 391. Chapter XXXVIT.—pages 393 to 396. My Valedictory—An Address to Railway Employees—Old Adam in As You LikeIt —Total Abstinence the Safety-Valve—Lord Brasseys Navvies—A PrisonWardens Report—Sir Andrew Clarkes Opinion—What Solomon, the Wise,Says—Henry Anderton, the Poet—His Poem Jsature,—In Remembrance-Tiny Tims Prayer, 393-396. ADDENDA. Explanation—Sir Hugh Allan—Father of Ocean and St. Lawrence Steamship Navi-gation—Sir Hughs Energy and Pluck—Surmoimts all Difficulties—His NightJourneys—No Pullman Cars—Dents Sketch of Sir Hughs Life—Allan LineStarts with One Steamship in 1853, have now Thirty-three, SIR HENRY W. TYLER. INTEODUCTOEY. In Canada and the United States the railroad is of greater value even than inEngland ; it is there regarded as the pioneer of colonization, and instrumental inopening up new and fertile territories of vast extent—the food-grounds of futurenations.—Dr. Samuel Smiles^ Life of George Stephenson. FACTS and incidents which relate to the early history of greatpublic undertakings are always interesting, as they illustratetheir usefulness and power for creating important changes in thecountries where they are first inaugurated. Nothing has done so much to revolutionize the civilizedworld as the cutting of navigable canals and the buildingof r
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