A letter to the author of "The clockmaker" : containing thoughts on the subject of a railway communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific from the magnificent harbour of Halifax, in Nova Scotia (North-eastern America), to the mouth of Frazer's River in New Caledonia (North-western America), or such other port as may be determined upon.
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Carmichael-Smyth, Robert, Haliburton, Thomas Chandler,
ResumoAttributed to Robert Carmichael-Smyth. The "addressee" of the "Letter" is Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Cf. Halkett & Laing. Cover title continues: " by undertaking a great national work and thus opening the shortest road to the most extensive regions of wealth ever before at the command of any nation in the world (not regions of gold but for commerce and industry) so that at no future period (within at least the imagination of man) will Great Britain have to complain either of too great a population on her soil or too small a market for her labour : all of this fully explained in [A letter] ... ." Book.
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