The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS 537 but at the very date of his travels another observer was able AD, 16s to congratulate his countrymen on the immense improve- ment that had taken place in the preceding half century. Henry Homer regarded the state of the roads and difficulties In the time of internal communication as one of the chief reasons for the of Ju een backward state of the country in the time of Queen Anne. “The Trade of the Kingdom languished under these Im- pediments. Few People cared to encounter the Difficulties, which attended the Conveyance of Goods from the Places where they were manufactured, to the Markets, where they were to be disposed of And those, who undertook this Business, were only enabled to carry it on in the Wintry- Season on Horseback, or, if in Carriages, by winding Deviations from the regular Tracks, which the open country afforded them an Opportunity of making. Thus the very the state of same Cause, which was injurious to Trade, laid waste also eoals a considerable Part of our Lands. The natural Produce of trad the Country was with Difficulty circulated to supply the Necessities of those Counties and trading Towns, which wanted, and to dispose of the superfluity of others which abounded. Except in a few Summer-Months, it was an almost impracticable Attempt to carry very considerable Quantities of it to remote Places. Hence the Consumption of the Growth of Grain as well as of the inexhaustible Stores of Fuel, which Nature has lavished upon particular Parts of our Island, was limited to the Neighbourhood of those Places which produced them; and made them, com- paratively speaking, of little value to what they would have seen, had the Participation of them been more enlarged. “To the Operation of the same Cause must also be 0 attributed, in great Measure, the slow Progress which was ‘ormerly made in the Improvement of Agriculture. Dis- couraged by the Expence of procuring Manure, and the incertain Returns, which arose from such confined Markets, she Farmer wanted both Spirit and Ability to exert himself mm the Cultivation of his Lands. On this Account Under- sakings in Husbandry were then generally small. calculated ve tacked to each to draw them out one by one.” Southern Tour, p. 88. A mass of evidence as to the state of the roads in the eighteenth century will be found in ‘N.C. Sydney, England in the Eighteenth Century. 11. 1—43.

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