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no railroad except that skirting along the northern border, 

 following the sinuosities of the river, with spurs to Mount 

 Holly and Freehold, located mainly to accommodate the 

 through travel, without reference to the wants of the in 

 terior. 



&quot; Can any other State show so large a tract of fertile 

 land, so well adapted to cultivation, and so admirably lo 

 cated as this great peninsula, intercepted between the 

 largest city in the Union and the broad Atlantic, fronting 

 hundreds of miles on the great waters connecting us with 

 Europe, with no more railroads than this section has ? The 

 Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company have the credit 

 of opening the way through this heretofore uncultivated 

 portion of our State. Cast your eyes along that road, the 

 location of which is not so favorable for reaching the eastern 

 market as this Air Line, and see the magical effect upon 

 the value of property. Thousands of acres of land, which, 

 previous to its construction, were comparatively of little 

 value, although naturally good, the location being so re 

 mote that the price obtained for crops in market would 

 not bear the expense of carting them through the sand, 

 have, since the completion of said road, advanced in value, 

 some, one hundred, some five hundred per cent., and some 

 more, according to the location. The wood which covers 

 most of the high table land, and has heretofore been con 

 sidered an incumbrance in the way of cultivating the soil, 

 now readily commands from three to four dollars per cord 

 on the road.&quot; 



The testimony of Mr. Parry &quot;becomes especially 

 valuable from two facts he unites in himself the 

 two professions of land surveyor and nurseryman. 

 He has been for many years the successful propri 

 etor of a nursery embracing two hundred acres, in 



