After going about two hundred miles, the travellers at last found themselves on one of those vast plains which extend to the Atlantic, and which nature has made so propitious for laying the iron road.
大约再走两百英里,客车才会到达那一片一直延展到大西洋海岸的辽阔平原,在这样的平原上修筑铁路实在大方便了。