Publisher's Synopsis
Title: A letter to the author of "The clockmaker" containing thoughts on the subject of a 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 in New Caledonia (North-western America), or such other port as may be determined upon.Author: Robert Carmichael-SmythPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP05373600CollectionID: CTRG05-B10431PublicationDate: 18490101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Attributed to Robert Carmichael-Smyth. The "addressee" of the "Letter" is Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Cf. Halkett & Laing. Cover title continues: " by undertaking a great national work and thus opening the shortest road to the most extensive regions of wealth ever before at the command of any nation in the world (not regions of gold but for commerce and industry) 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 of this fully explained in [A letter] ... ."Collation: viii, 56 p.; 22 cm
