A TREATISE ON

THE

NEW ART OF TRANSPORT,

ITS

MANAGEMENT, PROSPECTS, AND RELATIONS,

COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, AND SOCIAL,

WITH AN EXPOSITION OF

THE PRACTICAL RESULTS OF THE RAILWAYS IN OPERATION IN

THE UNITED KINGDOM, ON THE CONTINENT,

AND IN AMERICA.

BY DIONYSIUS LARDNER, D.C.L., &c.

A

“There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil,
busy workshops, and easy conveyance of men and things from one place to another."
-Bacon.

“Let us travel over all the countries of the earth, and wherever we shall find no
facility of passing from a city to a town, or from a village to a hamlet, there we may
pronounce the people to be barbarians." —RAYNAL.