Excerpt from Our Ocean Railways Until his days the pathways of the human race had been the mountain, river, plain, and strait, or inland sea. To him the honour is due of having first conceived the notion of opening a road which, though replete with danger, was yet so full of promise. And here we may with national pride recall the interesting fact that this Prince who thus opened the way for the maritime explorations which have given Britain an empire on which the sun never sets, was the son of an English Royal lady, the daughter of John 0' Gaunt - timehonoured Lancaster - and therefore the nephew of our own King Henry IV., and grandson of Edward III. Of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.