“Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.”

— Adam Smith

Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part I, p. 174.

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