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CHAPTER VT. 



A GREAT deal has been written and said 

 upon the subject of accidents in traveling, 

 and comparisons have been made between those 

 caused by rail and road. There can be no 

 doubt that there has been an awful sacrifice of 

 life and an enormous amount of injury attributa- 

 ble to the rail. Where hundreds formerly made 

 their journeys by public mails and stage-coaches, 

 or travelled in their own carriages, thousands 

 upon thousands are now conveyed by steam ; 

 and out of those thousands how many are reck- 

 less and foolish ! — scrambling into the carriages 

 when they are moving, or rushing out before 

 they stop. 



Although it would be, humanly speaking, im- 

 possible to provide against accidents, for in or 

 after a frost ironwork cannot be depended upon ; 



