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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