This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...miserable. Even now the roads of India are so poor that she secured very little profit from the new cotton market that was thrown open to her at the commencement of our civil war. Not much of her cotton could be got to the seaboard without consuming, in transportation, the great price it brought when once in the market of the world. Again, with the revival of civilization in Europe, better roads were among the first signs indicative of that revival. The Crusades forced upon those who were called to lead vast armies, a conviction that good roads were absolutely necessary for the speedy movement of troop's. Once more men began, after the manner of the old Romans, to build roads for war and conquest; then commerce proceeded gradually to use them and to build new ones. So it may be...

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