M&D - 651- Gravity less important than Rapture

[Julien Nègre]

Mason & Dixon, p. 651, 4-9.

What are these "swifter passenger conveyances" that suddenly appear flying across the sky?

It comes right after the terrible passage about the emergence of taverns and a western city if the Line were to cut the Indian war path, but what is the reference here?

Any link with the flying coach of Lady Barnard mentioned on page 505?


      
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