Travel back to a time when travel was by paddle or by sail, by foot or by horse or by carriage. From the hollowed-log canoes of Indians to the fashionable horse-drawn carriages of the gentry, Rivers and Roads presents the world as Virginians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries came to it and through it. Evocative photos bring alive a world that is long gone but can still be glimpsed in and around Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. Then, as now, travel was not always a pleasure, but it was surely an experience to remember. Or, as one eighteenth-century wit wrote of a trip by stagecoach: If one was sure in each Stage-Coach to meet A Company so sociable, so sweet, E'er I would trouble them again with mine, Instead of riding One Mile, I'd walk nine.