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Excerpt from Forays Among Salmon and Deer Our bonnie isle - at least considerably more than the southern half of it - is now so crossed and recrossed by the many intersecting lines of "rail" which have of late sprung into being, and which are still multiplying, that the map of England in "Bradshaw" is beginning to bear a strong resemblance to the web which we might imagine constructed by some eccentric old spider, who, defying all the rules of geometry, sacrifices symmetry to utility, content if only his meshes are strong enough to secure for him occasionally a goodly blue-bottle. Along these lines, which form, as it were, the veins and arteries of the country, the glowing blood of England courses and recourses vigorously, in constantly renewed pulsations, between her heart of hearts, the Metropolis, and her distant extremities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.