The employment of the people and the capital of Great Britain in her own colonies
Subtitle: at the same time assisting emigration and penal arrangements ... : explained in a letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to his friend the author of The Clockmaker, containing thoughts on the subject of a British colonial railway communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific, from ... Halifax, in Nova Scotia ... to the mouth of Frazer's River, in New Caledonia (north-western America)
Publisher: W.P. Metchim
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Transportation; Railroads; Colonies; British colonies
Other titles: Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to his friend the author of "The clockmaker."
Notes: Title on 2 leaves; 2nd leaf begins: A letter ...

Also issued in same year in an ed. of 75 p. with slightly different title (see Lowther 17); Peel lists another issue in 1849 published anonymously under the title: A letter to the author of The clockmaker ... (59 p.).

Includes bibliographical references (Gagnon I 3342; Lowther 16; Peel 131; TPL 3037).