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Description

A brief introduction to the importance of trade via train routes in the emerging New World inhabited by emigrants from the European continent.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
In the beginnings of international trade, the older countries exchange their products for the raw materials and food produced by new ones. As immigrants from the old countries go out into the new ones, they want to be supplied with the comforts and appliances of the older civilizations such as to take an obvious example. Railways. But as the productions of the new countries at their early stage of development, do not suffice to pay for all the material and machinery needed for building railways. They borrow in effect these materials in the expectation that the railways will open out their resources, enable them to put more land under the plow and bring more stuff to the seaboard to be exchanged for the products of Europe.