Note 39 — HISTORICAL NOTES

Davis, Intellectual Life, p. 152, and A. Hulbert, The Paths of Inland Commerce (New Haven: Yale University, 1921), pp. 44-55. The situation appeared to improve little during the nineteenth century, for in 1894 the Virginia Good Roads Convention called the American rural roads “far below the average” and “certainly are among the worst in the civilized world and always have been largely as a result of permitting local circumstances to determine the location with little or no regard for any general system, and haste and waste and ignorance in building.” Virginia Good Roads Convention, Programme (Richmond: Stone Printing Co., 1894), p. 24.