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necessity, and insisting that there was no choice left but 

 a railroad, on which the journey between Liverpool and 

 Manchester, whether performed by horses or engines, 

 would always be accomplished " within the day," 

 nevertheless scouted the idea of travelling at a greater 

 speed than eight or nine miles an hour. Adverting to 

 a project for forming a railway to Woolwich, by which 

 passengers were to be drawn by locomotive engines, 

 moving with twice the velocity of ordinary coaches, the 

 reviewer observed : " What can be more palpably 

 absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of 

 locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage - coaches ! 

 We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to 

 suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's 

 ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such 

 a machine going at such a rate. We will back old 

 Father Thames against the Woolwich Eailway for any 

 sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it 

 may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an 

 hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Sylvester is as 

 great as can be ventured on with safety." 



SURVEYING ON CHAT MOSS. 



