land-carriage

On page 28: “As by means of water-carriage a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry then what land-carriage alone afford it, so it us upon the sea-coast and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind begins to subdivide and improve itself.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

On page 28: “As by means of water-carriage a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry then what land-carriage alone afford it, so it us upon the sea-coast and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind begins to subdivide and improve itself.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

Between these two cities caravans are continually passing, and a large trade is carried on; but Mr. Jackson observes, that the expense of land-carriage by means of camels is more moderate than that by water, and that the journey also is more agreeable!

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

If the small cataract referred to were to be avoided, the land-carriage beyond would only be about two miles.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The country is totally unfit for canals, therefore there is a not very distant point beyond which the land-carriage of wool will not repay the expense of shearing and tending sheep.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The country is totally unfit for canals, therefore there is a not very distant point beyond which the land-carriage of wool will not repay the expense of shearing and tending sheep.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

From that period till the late occurrences, all the commercial intercourse with British India was maintained either by land-carriage from Cutch, by which mode of conveyance the opium of Malwa and Marwar (vast quantities of which are exported in this direction) chiefly found its way into Scinde and

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

The amount of consumption is controlled, in a considerable degree, by the cost of transit; when this is cheap prices rise from the general demand; but when land-carriage to any extent has to be resorted to, they fall; it raises prices so much at any great distance, that rice must be used very sparingly, from its enhanced price.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

They were in great distress for wool, and could procure none but by land-carriage from

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

There was a delicious species of small melon, which had been sent by land-carriage from Astrakhan to Moscow -- a distance of a thousand miles.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various