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No one without having seen the thing himself - & the jolting will impress it on his memory - can form any proper conception of | No one without having seen the thing himself - & the jolting will impress it on his memory - can form any proper conception of the holes, the mud, & the pools of water which not unfrequently constitute what is called in America a road. At Augusta I had seen axles disappear in the main streets. But the most advanced specimen of this kind of means of communication I ever passed over was in going to the station of the Mississippi & Tennessee railway at New Orleans. I could not see, or hear that any attempt had ever been made to form a road. | ||
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176 No one without having seen the thing himself - & the jolting will impress it on his memory - can form any proper conception of the holes, the mud, & the pools of water which not unfrequently constitute what is called in America a road. At Augusta I had seen axles disappear in the main streets. But the most advanced specimen of this kind of means of communication I ever passed over was in going to the station of the Mississippi & Tennessee railway at New Orleans. I could not see, or hear that any attempt had ever been made to form a road.