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مهل

A

PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

RAIL-ROADS,

AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL.

CONTAINING

NUMEROUS EXPERIMENTS ON THE POWERS OF

THE IMPROVED LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES:

AND

TABLES OF THE COMPARATIVE COST OF CONVEYANCE ON CANALS,
RAILWAYS, AND TURNPIKE ROADS.

"Should we live to see fully developed all the powers and energies of this system,
we have no doubt we shall also live to see it recognised, as one of the very greatest
benefits which either philosophy or art has ever conferred on mankind.”— -Quarterly

Review.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.