Because of the high numbers of navigable rivers and the relatively easy-to-traverse terrain, France has always been easy to travel across.

由于可通航的河流数量众多，而且地形相对容易横穿，法国一直很容易跨越。

First, steam ships made it possible for Europeans to travel inland, bringing supplies and personnel via Africa's navigable rivers.

首先，蒸汽船使欧洲人有可能前往内陆，通过非洲的通航河流运送物资和人员。

Owing to a large series of big and easily navigable rivers like the Rhine, Marne, Seine, Loire, Rhone, and Garonne, France has the capability to exert trading power across every region of Western Europe.

由于有莱茵河、马恩河、塞纳河、卢瓦尔河、罗纳河和加龙河等一系列易于通航的大河，法国有能力在西欧的每一个地区发挥贸易实力。

But those of a city, situated near either the sea-coast or the banks of a navigable river, are not necessarily confined to derive them from the country in their neighbourhood.

但是那些位于靠近海岸或通航河流岸边的城市的那些，不一定局限于从附近的国家获得它们。

What they have, therefore, is applied to the cultivation only of what is most fertile and most favourably situated, the land near the sea-shore, and along the banks of navigable rivers.

因此，他们所拥有的只用于耕种最肥沃、位置最有利的土地， 即靠近海边和通航河流沿岸的土地。

In our North American colonies, the plantations have constantly followed either the sea-coast or the banks of the navigable rivers, and have scarce anywhere extended themselves to any considerable distance from both.

在我们的北美殖民地，种植园一直沿着海岸或通航河流的岸边延伸，几乎没有任何地方延伸到离这两者相当远的地方。

The neighbourhood of the sea-coast, and the banks of all navigable rivers, are advantageous situations for industry, only because they facilitate the exportation and exchange of such surplus produce for something else which is more in demand there.

沿海附近和所有通航河流的岸边，对工业来说都是有利的位置，只是因为它们有利于这些剩余产品的出口和交换，以换取那里更需要的其他产品。