. 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 .. . Rope-Bridge in the Himalaya Mountains. CHAPTER II. Mixed Facilities and Difficulties of all the Natural Mediums ofTravel and Conveyance ; either Air, Water, Earth, or Land.—Contrast of a Rail-road with a Rope-bridge.—Obstacles to Land-travel.—Mountain-passes.—Travelling in the Desert. The moving creatures of the globe enjoy, distributively,for the respective theatres of their movements, the air, thewater, and the land.
. 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 .. . Rope-Bridge in the Himalaya Mountains. CHAPTER II. Mixed Facilities and Difficulties of all the Natural Mediums ofTravel and Conveyance ; either Air, Water, Earth, or Land.—Contrast of a Rail-road with a Rope-bridge.—Obstacles to Land-travel.—Mountain-passes.—Travelling in the Desert. The moving creatures of the globe enjoy, distributively,for the respective theatres of their movements, the air, thewater, and the land. Birds fly in the air; fishes swim inthe waters; and beasts walk, and run, and leap upon theearth. Insects and reptiles, in the variety of their kinds,and in the changes of form which attend the lives of manyof their species, may be spoken of as dispersed and mixedin and throughout the whole of the three regions: asflying in the air, swimming and creeping in the waters; andcreeping, walking, running, leaping, and even burrowing,in and upon the earth. Among the several features, bythe partial exhibition of which all created things whateverare seen somewhere to app
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