Even the availability of fresh fish depends on the season. There is no use in trying to buy fresh turbot in December if you are more than twenty miles from the coast: only in summer is sea fish carried to markets that far inland. –The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England,
Ian Mortimer
What inference can be made about transportation, based on this passage?
Transportation was more difficult in the summer months than the winter months.
Transportation was difficult for people in Devon all year around.
Transportation was more difficult in the winter months than the summer months.

Transportation was more difficult in the winter months than the summer months.

Explanation:

According to the given excerpt, it is stated that availability of fresh fish is dependent on the season. It was also stated that it made no sense trying to buy fresh turbot in December if the person is more than twenty miles from the coast.

However, it was also said that it was only in summer that sea fish is carried that far inland which leads us to the conclusion that transportation was more difficult in the winter months than the summer months.

what is the passage?

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