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[217] Stone blocks were used instead of wooden sleepers on the earliest railways.
[218] One section of this Act enabled the company to charge a toll for cattle driven along the line, as on an ordinary highway.
[219] 33 George III.
[220] Clifford’s ‘History of Private Bill Legislation,’ vol. i. p. 41.
[221] Oddy’s ‘European Commerce’ gives a list of the canals that were either being promoted or constructed at the commencement of the century. Some of them were of very considerable extent. Oddy remarked in 1805 that “by means of the canals already finished a great part of European Russia has communication with one or other of the seas by which it is bounded.”
[222] ‘Practical Treatise on Railroads,’ first edition.
[223] ‘Practical Treatise on Railways,’ third edition, p. 699.
[224] Ibid., p. 18.
[225] ‘Minutes of Proceeding of the Institution of Civil Engineers,’ vol. lxxx. p. 11.