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 STANLEY J'EVOlS provideadequate accommodation and shelter for the largest vessels. (2) The extent to which it has been improved by moles, wharves, warehouses, etc. () The productivity o the hinterland. (4) the great ocean highways, which are accessibility and Its proximity to themselves continents Panama moment is the land to determined by and by such Canals. All we the configuration of works as the Suez are concerned with at accessibility of a productive the and the hinter- its port. Granted that the other conditions are favorable to the growth of a port, a demand comes into existence for' means of transport from long distances inland to' this port. Usually there must be several main lines conv,erging on a port, and the precise align- ment of these will be determined by the location of the most productive districts and by the main physi- cal features. In Europe and North America the through lines of communication of both the above classes are fairly well developed; bnt in India, as in Australia and in are but very partially Yet it will be possible most of South America, they developed or even understood. by sufficient study to forecast the alignment of these great through roads; and to do so is highly important because of the close connection which the local corn- ought to have with any traversing the district, and and roads the local sometimes through through have line. The connecting munications of any district through routes near to or lines before line railways and because the branch to be constructed branch and feeder roads, should spread out over any of territory branching away from connection sonewhat in the way lines, geographical unit the main through that the veins of a leaf branch out from the mid.rib and cover the whole-surface of the leaf with ever zmaller and smaller veins.