Excerpt from Description of a Railway on a New Principle: With Observations on Those Hitherto Constructed; And a Table, Shewing the Comparative Amount of Resistance on Several Now in Use; Also an Illustration of a Newly Observed Fact Relating to the Friction of Axles Obstacles to the adoption of the new method may occur, which may not appear to be provided for; but, I trust, a little reflection will evince the impossibility of illustrating all possible cases, without rendering the description too long and tedious. The principle, I venture to assert, admits of very extensive applica tion, yet I would not have it thought that I advise it for every situation, or with the presumption of entirely superseding all former methods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.