The Life of Thomas Telford; Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain

Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904

"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