The roads in Cephalonia were formerly very bad: most of them little better than rugged mountain paths. The same active spirit in Major Du Bosset (κυβερνήτης) has led him to employ a certain part of the labour and revenue of the island in the construction of new roads; and this measure has been carried into effect with singular promptitude and success. The rocky nature of the surface has given facility to the work, by providing a firm substratum and an excellent material. The peasants by degrees became sensible to the advantage of these improvements; and in several instances came forward to Volunteer their labours, and to solicit an extension of the roads to other districts of country. These works therefore have drawn less upon the revenue of the island than might be expected from their scale and completeness. The road beginning from the new causeway at Argostoli, and traversing the mountains in the centre of the isle, to the opposite coast near Samos, is the greatest undertaking of the kind. It had been executed, when I was in Cephalonia, so far as to be every-wbere perfectly passable for a carriage; and the journey from Argostoli to this coast, which formerly required eight or ten hours, might now be performed in little more than half the time. The road carried along the populous district of the southern coast might almost be compared with those of England, and is greatly superior to any i have seen in Portugal or Sicily.
