River beds have been surveyed, mountains have been searched, maps have been drawn and estimates made by these gentlemen, while mines, railways, and steamboats have been discussed in the tea-shop and wayside inns by the alert inhabitants. Notwithstanding the Vicoroy's pet answer that the people are not yet ready for such innovations, not an idle rumour has arisen, not an open word of opposition has been heard. It is almost incredible that the present state of things could exist when one remembers the opposition of three or four years ago against every uew proposal.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.