Propositions in aid of constructing and safely working, on a plan to ensure (without risk) a return of 7 1/2 per cent. per annum for whatever amount of capital may be employed, 10,000 miles of railroad, &c., to connect, with the exception of the short sea passage to Antwerp or Flushing, London with Canton, in China (a twelve days' journey only)
Subtitle: with ramifications to all the principal cities, towns, and works of Europe and Asia, and to many in Africa also, if thought desirable : by means of which roads a daily post and free intercourse, commerical, social, and philosophical, may be established and permanently maintained over a population of from 600 to 700 millions of people, and the blessings of civilization thus spread over the globe
Publisher: The Office of the Mining Journal
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Railroads
Notes: Preface signed and dated: Samuel Baldwyn Rogers, November 20, 1844.