... opposition on the other. The prejudice of the short-sighted and the soon led to the consolidation of roads, which continued until now the 14,000 miles of railway in England and Wales are practically ... could not be expedited to one hundred. Even this latter rate was considered slow on the great post-roads forty years later. In the year 1800 one general mail-route was extended from Maine to ... four hundred miles, have been constructed at a cost of twenty-two million dollars. The roads are operated by the colonial government and yielded in 1891 a net revenue of 4.4 per cent. on the capital...