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Then they came to an India more strange to them than to the untravelled Englishman the flat, red India of palm-tree, palmyra-palm, and rice, the India of the picture-books, of Little Henry and His Bearer all dead and dry in the baking heat. They had left the incessant passenger-traffic of the north and west far and far behind them.
The unfortunate traveler wrapped up his parcel as he best might, and made his way off the platform, after addressing an inquiry to the first official victim of the day's passenger-traffic, who was sufficiently in possession of his senses to listen to it. Leaving the station for the river-side, which was close at hand, the stranger entered the ferryboat at the North Street Postern.
The season of the year was against him; the passenger-traffic to America was at its lowest ebb, and profits depended upon freights alone. If he still contemplated deserting his wife, he must also submit to sacrifice his money. He had not quite decided what to do when he got home again on the evening of his marriage.
Twenty years of experience show that the diminished cost of transport by railroad invariably augments the amount of commerce transacted, and in a much larger ratio than the reduction of cost. It is estimated by Dr. Lardner that three hundred thousand horses, working daily in stages, would be required to perform the passenger-traffic alone which took place in England during the year 1848.
We must not expect that the vast and unprecedented emigration to California and Australia now going on, will be designedly and materially connected with high speed, because most of the emigrants go in roomy ships, at fares as low as are attainable; but goods-traffic, and the higher class of passenger-traffic, are every month coming more and more within the domain of high speed.
Then they came to an India more strange to them than to the untravelled Englishman the flat, red India of palm-tree, palmyra-palm, and rice the India of the picture-books, of "Little Harry and His Bearer" all dead and dry in the baking heat. They had left the incessant passenger-traffic of the north and west far and far behind them.
Their characteristics were speed, buoyancy, comfort, and elegance a combination of every requisite for the safe and advantageous prosecution of passenger-traffic on streams and estuaries.
How much of the notion was due to its own excellence and how much to its passenger-traffic monopoly does not matter. To-day, it neither feeds nor tends its passengers, nor keeps its ships well enough to put on any airs at all. For which reason, human nature being what it is, it surrounds itself with an ungracious atmosphere of absurd ritual to cover grudged and inadequate performance.
Then they came to an India more strange to them than to the untravelled Englishman the flat, red India of palm-tree, palmyra-palm, and rice the India of the picture-books, of "Little Harry and His Bearer" all dead and dry in the baking heat. They had left the incessant passenger-traffic of the north and west far and far behind them.
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