Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Sir, bart · London Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 400
road, hardly more than five or six miles long,to get to the nearest station, the road played a very small partin their lives. Now that travelling along fifty, or even ahundred miles of road is becoming common, and that thereturn to the road is almost accomplished, the old interest inthe highway is,… … PAST AND PRESENT ROADS 357 Of course the road never really lost its national importance.It was only that the quickness of railway travelling and theslowness of horse-transport made the road suffer a temporaryeclipse—though while it lasted of a very complete kind. Theold lawyers declared that title…
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