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Excerpt from Papers on Railway and Electric Communications, Arctic and Antarctic Explorations, and the Sanitary Movement
And further: how few of the latte1 class could afford to travel by stage coach. The broad wheeled wagon, creeping on at the snail's pace of three miles an hour, or the canal boat, oftentimes as slow, was their only resource. In either of these the journey from London to Manchester occupied a week; and yet, with all their tedium and misery, they were much more resorted to by respectable people of scanty means than is commonly known 01 believed m the present day.
But what travelling was ten years ago is, and becomes more and more.
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