Transcribed from the 1831 Effingham Wilson edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org REMARKS ON THE PROPOSED RAILWAY BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LONDON: PUBLISHED BY EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE: SOLD ALSO BY R. WRIGHTSON, BIRMINGHAM; EBENEZER THOMPSON & SONS, MANCHESTER; AND G. & J. ROBINSON, LIVERPOOL. 1831. [_Price One Shilling_.] * * * * * * * * * * PRINTED BY RICHARD TAYLOR, RED LION COURT, FLEET-STREET. * * * * * * * * * * REMARKS, _&c._ WITHOUT minutely inquiring into the origin of the different modes of conveyance at present existing in this country and others for passengers and goods, I shall content myself with asking, Why were canals first established? and What was the great benefit arising from them, which caused so much as fifteen hundred miles in extent to be executed in less than a quarter of a century, at a cost of nearly twenty millions of money, and for the most part during a time of war, when the highest rate of taxation prevailed?