Excerpt from The Old Boston Post Road Meanwhile, there had been material progress in agri cultural lines. As long as the settlements were along the coast, communication and interchange of commodities were easy by means of vessels; but the settlements began to grow inland, and roads became necessary to maintain communication; and roads are great factors in develop ment and civilization. Several such roads were developed from the Indian trails leading from Boston, so that in time there came to be two well defined post roads ...
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Excerpt from The Old Boston Post Road Meanwhile, there had been material progress in agri cultural lines. As long as the settlements were along the coast, communication and interchange of commodities were easy by means of vessels; but the settlements began to grow inland, and roads became necessary to maintain communication; and roads are great factors in develop ment and civilization. Several such roads were developed from the Indian trails leading from Boston, so that in time there came to be two well defined post roads from Boston to New York, and a third developed later 1n the days of the turnpikes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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