There were the usual entanglement and noise of carts , drays , omnibuses , waggons , and foot passengers , but the misfortune that had fallen on the wooden midshipman made it strange and new .
By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion , the omnibuses , horse railways , commuter trains , and electrictrolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centers than they were in the premodern era .
By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion , the omnibuses , horse railways , commuter trains , and electricrolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centers than they were in the pre modern era .
