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We now set forward wholly by land, and without any expectation of more water-carriage.
As by means of water-carriage, a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry than what land-carriage alone can afford it, so it is upon the sea-coast, and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and improve itself, and it is frequently not till a long time after that those improvements extend themselves to the inland parts of the country.
Upper Egypt extends itself nowhere above a few miles from the Nile; and in Lower Egypt, that great river breaks itself into many different canals, which, with the assistance of a little art, seem to have afforded a communication by water-carriage, not only between all the great towns, but between all the considerable villages, and even to many farm-houses in the country, nearly in the same manner as the Rhine and the Maese do in Holland at present.
Kind Reception from the Commandant His Generosity to my Men The Village of Tete The Population Distilled Spirits The Fort Cause of the Decadence of Portuguese Power Former Trade Slaves employed in Gold-washing Slave-trade drained the Country of Laborers The Rebel Nyaude's Stockade He burns Tete Kisaka's Revolt and Ravages Extensive Field of Sugar-cane The Commandant's good Reputation among the Natives Providential Guidance Seams of Coal A hot Spring Picturesque Country Water-carriage to the Coal-fields Workmen's Wages Exports Price of Provisions Visit Gold-washings The Process of obtaining the precious Metal Coal within a Gold-field Present from Major Sicard Natives raise Wheat, etc.
"I serve you, Monsieur, sooner than I promised; and that is the way you ought to be served. I send you the answer of M. Smith," probably some German or Dutch SCHMIDT, spelt here in English, connected with the Sciences, say with water-carriage, the typographies, or one need not know what; "you will see where the question stands.
Whereas, upon the same quantity of goods carried by water, there is to be charged only the maintenance of six or eight men, and the wear and tear of a ship of two hundred tons burthen, together with the value of the superior risk, or the difference of the insurance between land and water-carriage.
No wheeled carriages are used in Madagascar, so that the only roads are the paths made by the unshod feet of the natives, or by the bullocks' hoofs; and there is no water-carriage all goods are conveyed on men's shoulders from one part of the country to the other; so that we had quite an army with us, what with our relays of bearers, and those who carried our baggage and presents.
We see by Beaumarchais' correspondence that one of his friends travels around in the environs of Paris to find bread. If this were so I would bargain with a reliable man there to carry it to you by water-carriage between Briare and Paris... In the mean time I do not despair of finding a loaf."
Chicago itself, the most vital and the quickest grower among modern towns, owes half its importance to the fact that there water-carriage down the Great Lakes begins; though it owes the other half, I admit, to the converse fact that all the great trans-continental railways have to bend south at that point to avoid Lake Michigan.
Being a people much occupied in maritime pursuits, they prefer, like the amphibious Dutch, traveling by rivers, or the innumerable cuts, canals, and creeks, which everywhere intersect the country: beside, their prows afford more protection from surprise, and they conceive their town as safer by being surrounded by a jungle and situated in a swamp; nor have they any conception beyond water-carriage.
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