Front matter
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The Life of Thomas Telford civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britian
by Samuel Smiles
"Let us travel, and wherever we find no facility for travelling from a city to a town, from a village to a hamlet, we may pronounce the people to be barbarous" —Abbe Raynal
"The opening up of the internal communications of a country is undoubtedly the first and most important element of its growth in commerce and civilization" —Richard Cobden
CONTENTS
Preface