this is not denied, then contrast the present highways of the district
through which the adopted line will pass, remembering the many steep and
rugged hills, with the present much improved Rail-ways where the
uniformity of ascent and descent is maintained as a principal object, and
permit it to come within your calculating powers to show, what benefit it
may contribute to the perfection of a science on which so much wealth and
public benefit depend.

Or as may regard its importance by the constant employment it will afford
to nearly all ages and classes of people, who may be concerned directly
or indirectly in the manufacture of Yarns, Linens, and Cottons, and
probably at better wages than are regularly paid at other manufacturing
places, for should a considerable saving of carriage be effected,
together with the quick dispatch and transport of goods from place to
place, as we have contemplated; the profits of the masters would be
improved, their business extended, competition created, and hence wages
would be advanced; industry would thereby be promoted, and could morality
and economy be taught by example, then pauperism would only be known by
its name.

If there be any doubt, that the completion of this project will not open
new channels for such tillage as the various soils which are contiguous
to the line require, we are unacquainted with it; because instead of
that, we believe it will not only facilitate the transport of the various
limes as may be requisite to suit the different soils, but also afford an
opportunity of introducing great quantities of manure from the towns of
Leeds and Hull, into places which the present modes in use never will
accommodate.

To enumerate all the advantages which a well constructed Rail-way
possesses over every other mode of conveyance, on lines where the ascent
is great, as in this, would be a work of time, and therefore we shall
dismiss it after quoting a passage from Dupini's Report to the French
Government:

"The advantages which Iron Rail-ways present are immense.--England
owes to them a part of her wealth. Never without them could coal,
lime, minerals, and other raw materials have been conveyed to such
distances, and at the same time, at so trifling an expense."

To the Noblemen and Gentlemen who have money vested in the security of
the tolls, arising from the highways contiguous to the line, we beg to
offer some observations, particularly to those who ma