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one regret that he did not employ a professional 

 artist. 



Here ends my chapter on mail and stage-coaches, 

 a matter in which all who are fond of driving must 

 feel some interest, and yet no one, except he be 

 fully qualified for the interior of a lunatic asylum, 

 will regret the day when George Stephenson brought 

 the invention of the locomotive to a successful issue, 

 or will nourish ill-feeling against the men who, since 

 his death, have striven by the exercise of supreme 

 intelligence and remarkable inventive genius to 

 improve the machine, to the invention of which the 

 inhabitants of this world owe their daily increasing 

 civilisation, and the free and greatly accelerated ex- 

 pansion of international intercourse. 



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