AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 4:1 



State of New York for a second enlargement, to pass ves 

 sels of five hundred tons. The vessels called canal boats, 

 now navigating the canal, exceed five thousand in number, 

 and if placed in a line, would be more than eighty miles in 

 length. 



&quot;The barrels of wheat and flour alone, carried by the 

 canal to the Hudson river, were, in 1842, 1,146,292; in 

 1852, 3,937,366; in 1862, 7,516,397. 



A similar enlargement is also proposed for the canal 

 connecting Lake Michigan with the Mississippi river. When 

 both the works are completed, a barrel of flour can be car 

 ried from St. Louis to New York, nearly half across the 

 continent, for fifty cents ; or a ton, from the Iron Mountain 

 of Missouri, for $5. The moderate portion of the cereals 

 that descends the lakes, if placed in barrels of five bushels 

 each, and side by side, would form a line of five thousand 

 miles long. The whole crop, if placed in barrels, would en 

 circle the globe. Such is its present magnitude. We leave 

 it to statistical science to discern and fully estimate the fu 

 ture. One result is, at all events, apparent. A general 

 famine is now impossible; for America, if necessary, can 

 feed Europe for centuries to come. Let the statesman 

 and philanthropist ponder well the magnitude of the fact, 

 and all its far-reaching consequences political, social, and 

 moral in the increased industry, the increased happiness, 

 and the assured peace of the world. 



&quot; The great metalliferous region of the American Union 

 is found between the Missouri river and the Pacific Ocean. 

 This grand division of the Republic embraces little more 

 than half of its whole continental breadth. Portland, in 

 Maine, is the meridian 70 west from Greenwich ; Leaven- 

 worth, on the Missouri river, in 95 ; and San Francisco, on 

 the Pacific, in 123. By these continental landmarks, the 

 western or metalliferous section is found to embrace 28, and 



