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CONTENTS. 



LOCOMOTION AND TRANSPORT, THEIR INFLUENCE AND 

 PROGRESS. 



PAOK 



CHAP. I. INFLUENCE OP IMPROVED TRANSPORT ON CIVILISATION. 



1. Art of transport essential to social advancement. 2. Its 

 rapid advancement in modern times. 3. Commerce mainly 

 dependent on it. 4. Its conditions. 5. Its advantages, its 

 influence on price. 6. Example of cotton. 7. Agricultural 

 products. 8. Reciprocal advantages to rural and urban popu- 

 lation. 9. Absence of good means of transport injurious to 

 France. 10. Renders -worthless or injurious articles serviceable 

 and valuable. 11. Stimulates both production and consumption. 

 12. Increases the demand for labour. 13. Effects of rail- 

 ways. 14. Advantages of increased speed. 15. In the transport 

 of cattle. 16. Steam vessels not so well adapted to this. 17. 

 Supply of milk to towns. 18. Advantages to farmers and land- 

 lords. 19. Advantages of steam navigation. 20. Advantages of 

 personal locomotion. 21. In the case of the working population. 

 22. Influence on the value of land. 23. Advantages to the 

 population of large cities. 24. Relative speed of horse coaches 

 and railways. 25. Military advantages. 26. Offers induce- 

 ments to peace and the means of abridging war. 27. Influence 

 on the diffusion of knowledge. 28. The electric telegraph. 



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CHAP. II. RETROSPECT OF THE PROGRESS OF TRANSPORT. 1. Of the 

 first construction and improvement of roads and carriages. 



2. Roads do not exist in more than two-sevenths of the inhabited 

 parts of the globe. 3. Roman and Egyptian roads. 4. Roads 

 constructed by order of Semiramis. 5. Internal communication 

 in ancient Greece. 6. Roads of the Phoenicians and Carthagi- 

 nians. 7. Roman military roads. 8. Commercial intercourse 

 during the middle ages. 9. Influences of the crusades on the art 

 of transport. 10. Roads and intercommunication on the Con- 

 tinent to the middle of the seventeenth century. 11. System of 

 roads projected by Napoleon. 12. Improvement in internal 

 communication after the peace of 1815 Roads of France 13. 

 First roads in England, those made by the Romans. 14. Watling 

 Street, Ermine Street, Fosse-way and Ikenald. 15. First 

 attempts to improve roads in Great Britain in reign of Charles 

 the Second. 16. Transport in Scotland to the middle of the 

 eighteenth century. 17. Slowness of travelling in Scotland. 



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