social adjustment become irrelevant.

     Until the 1820s, Handlin tells us, Bostonians walked to 
and fro, or used private conveyances. Horse-drawn buses were 
introduced in 1826, and these speeded up and extended 
business a great deal. Meantime the speedup of industry in 
England had extended business into the rural areas, dislodging 
many from the land and increasing the rate of immigration. Sea 
transport of immigrants became lucrative and encouraged a 
great speed-up of ocean transport. Then the Cunard Line was 
subsidized by the British government in order to ensure swift 
contact with the colonies. The railways soon linked into this 
Cunard service, to convey mail and immigrants inland.

     Although America developed a massive service of inland 
canals and river steamboats, they were not geared to the