LOCOMOTION AND TRANSPORT. 



and benefits conferred, by these daily publications, a large portion 

 of which influence is to be ascribed to the cheapness, promptitude, 

 and rapidity with which they are transmitted from the capital to 

 all parts of the country. 



It is well known that the average number of copies of the most 

 widely circulating London journal, which are daily issued, amounts 

 at present to more than forty thousand. Each of these forty 

 thousand copies, according to common estimation, passes under the 

 eyes, upon an average, of at least ten persons. Thus we have 

 four hundred thousand daily readers of one organ of information 

 and intelligence. But the effects do not end there. These four 

 hundred thousand readers, long before the globe completes a 

 revolution on its axis, become four hundred thousand talkers, and 

 have vastly more than four hundred thousand hearers. Thus 

 they spread more widely by the ear the information, the argu- 

 ments, and the opinions they have received through the eye. We 

 shall certainly not be overstating the result if we assume, that this 

 influence of a single journal, directly and indirectly, reaches daily 

 a million of persons. 



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