Intermediate routesfrom Washington city to Wheeling; or to Harper's ferry, to Fredericksburg, and intersect the route through Virginia at Charlottesville.
Steamboats that pass up the lake from Buffalo, usually stop here, from whence stage routes communicate with Pittsburg, and many other towns in the interior.
This route is one of the great stage routes leading from the Ohio Valley to Washington city, and to all parts of old Virginia.
Though none of the routes are as yet completed, the net earnings of each of the three companies, over and above the interest on its bonds, have surpassed all expectation.
But apart from a merely commercial view, there are certain points of comparison between the various routes which demand a brief notice.
Curiously enough, it is through Kansas and Nebraska--the Epidaurus of our Peloponnesian war--that the two great rival Pacific Railroad routes are to run.
He tells me of two routes by which I can make a tour through his dominions.
There is still time, and perfect possibility, by Dippoldiswalde there, or by other routes and methods.
Trade in those days avoided the way of the ocean, and followed the well-known land routes across the heart of Europe, and where the land came to an end took the very shortest way over the water to the next point of solid earth.
All goods that came to them from abroad were carried to their shores by powerful confederations of foreign merchants who controlled the great continental trade routes of the north-west.
But neither of these routes crossed the wide and mountainous tracts referred to, or gave any definite information respecting them.
Thanks to his reconnaissances Wool knew which of the routes to pursue.
One cannot be sure enough now regarding the truth of the various allegations regarding the lateral routes to say what Santa Anna might have done.
The engineers, reconnoitring on their own responsibility, concluded that the mountains were "passable in every direction" by routes familiar to the enemy but of course blind to the invader.
It has been the careful study of the Postmaster-General in preparing to execute the law to which I have referred to see how much increase in routes and ships we could secure by it.
Already the steamship lines are looking over the routes to see what they can do, with a view of increasing their tonnage and establishing new lines.
It is designed to point out the most desirable routes between Chicago and the Eastern seaboard, and to serve as a book of ready reference by the way.
As an avenue of approach to the Adirondacks, Chateaugay Chasm, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, it offers a combination of desirable routes for summer travel.
Possibly no one traveler or party will traverse all the routes described in this work.
To seek other more circuitous and inferior routes is accepted as an evidence of inexperience or want of information.
A sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes circumscribes the Arctic Ocean.
English battleships were guarding trade routes to Australia, to China, to the islands of the Pacific.
Map: Map showing the Two Routes from Germany to Paris.
I take a certain historic delight in having followed the routes of the early pathfinders to a more remote destination.
If I am guilty, then he is guilty of stealing the routes of Davis, Kane, Greely and a number of others.
The establishment of custom-houses and of post-offices and post-roads and provision for the transportation of the mail on such routes as the public convenience will suggest require legislative authority.
The neutralization of certain routes of commerce has often been the subject of convention.
By the Treaty of 1867 with Nicaragua the United States guarantees "the neutrality and innocent use" of routes of communication across the state of Nicaragua.
Pursuit was continued along several routes towards Leesburg and Centreville, until darkness covered the fugitives.
It cut off the available routes to Texas, so inestimable in its importance as a source of grain and cattle; gave the enemy a base of operations against the entire gulf region, and was altogether disheartening to the South.
It would relieve congestion, benefit the whole grain trade and provide for the future possibility of alternate shipping routes via Hudson Bay or the Panama Canal.
But the Board considered that, in view of other possible routes than the Eastern, these objections were not strong enough to balance the benefits.
But probably the first coaches, or rather waggons, were run between London and Dover, as one of the most practicable routes for the purpose.
A careful survey was made of the several routes from London northward by Shrewsbury as far as Liverpool; and the short line by Coventry, being 153 miles from London to Shrewsbury, was selected as the one to be improved to the utmost.
The original intention was for the sledges to have started on the differentroutes laid down by our commodore on the 8th of April; but a fall of temperature on the 6th altered this plan, and a delay of one week was decided upon.
The various routes of trade from Europe and north-western Asia to India, which have been often referred to, are to be regarded more as speculations of future development than as realities of ancient history.
The routes of ancient commerce were thus interrupted and cut asunder by barriers of transport, and the farther they were extended became the more impassable to any considerable quantity or weight of commodities.
Birjand is probably the greatest commercial centre in Eastern Persia, its transit trade at various seasons of the year being very extensive from all the routes above-mentioned.
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