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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843

Note 6 — THE GAME UP WITH REPEAL AGITATION.

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Footnote 6: (return) The Persian princes go more into detail; but we doubt whether their description will much facilitate the construction of a railway from Ispahan to Shiraz. "The roads on which the coaches are placed and fixed, are made of iron bars; all that seems to draw them is a box of iron, in which they put water to boil; underneath, this iron box is like an urn, and from it rises the steam which gives the wonderful force; when the steam rises up, the wheels take their motion, the coach spreads its wings, and the travellers become like birds."

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