132 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



our national growth has been so greatly accelerated during the century, 

 is thus to receive due recognition. 



The extent of the collection of transportation exhibits, together with 

 the publications in relation thereto, can not tail to make a permanent 

 and worldwide impression, both upon the visitors who see, and those 

 absent who read of their magnitude. 



Thus will the future generations be made to understand the influ- 

 ence which the world's great systems of transportation have had upon 

 the progress of civilization during the four centuries since Columbus 

 sailed away from Palos in a caravel. 



