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JOHN METCALF, ROAD MAKER. 



PART TIL 



In all this series of improvements, roads have played 

 an important part. They have brought the population 

 nearer to each other in all respects, and thoroughly 

 opened up the national resources. The several stages 

 of improvement by which the pack-horse has been super- 

 seded by the waggon, the waggon by the coach, and 

 both by the railway train in the course of which Brad- 

 shaw the highwayman has been succeeded by Bradshaw 

 the railway guide printer mark the steps of a silent 

 revolution which has affected not only the physical 

 but the moral condition of the entire population of the 

 empire. 



LAND LIGHTHOUSE ON LINCOLN HEATH. 

 [By Percival Skelton.] 



