... iron and steel, and above all the fact that in our climate canal carriage is unavailable during five months of the year, gave the railroads a decided advantage in their competition with canal transportation ... road [Pg 66]operated in the colony in 1889 was only 496 The government controls nearly all the railroads of the colony Of the islands of Australasia, Tasmania and New Zealand are as yet the only ... the Via Appia and Latina to the south; two, Valeria and Salaria, to the Adriatic; two, Cassia and Aurelia, to the northwest; and the Via Æmilia, serving for both banks of the Po Nor were the provinces...