employment of the people and the capital of Great Britain in her own colonies
Subtitle: at the same time assisting emigration and penal arrangements by undertaking a great national work; and thus opening the shortest road to the most extensive regions of wealth ... so that at no future period (within at least the imagination of man) will Great Britain have to complain either of too great a population on her soil or too small a market for her labour. All this fully explained in // A letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to his friend the author of "The Clockmaker" ....
Contributors: Metchim, W. P., publisher.
Publisher: W. P. Metchim
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, -- 1796-1865.; Railroads -- Canada.; Canada -- Description and travel -- 1763-1867.
Other titles: Thoughts on the subject of a British colonial railway communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific.; A letter to the author of "The Clockmaker".
Notes: The author of "The Clockmaker" = T. C. Haliburton.

Title printed on pp.[i] and [iii]. Continues:- containing thoughts on the subject of a British colonial railway communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific, from the magnificent harbour of Halifax, in Nova Scotia (North-eastern America), to the mouth of Frazer's River of New Caledonia (North-western America) or such port as may be determined upon.