The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 2
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The Importance of Inland Navigation
In lower Egypt, that Great River breaks itself into many different canals. The extent and easiness of this inland navigation was probably one of the principal causes of the early improvement of Egypt. In Bengal, the Ganges, and several other great rivers, form a great number of navigable canals in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. It is remarkable that neither the ancient Egyptians, nor the Indians, nor the Chinese, encouraged foreign commerce, but seem all to have derived their great opulence from this inland navigation.
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