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trees over fifteen years of age were laden with luscious 

 fruit, bending their slender branches nearly or quite to the 

 ground. There is scarcely an enterprise offering such rich 

 rewards for capital and labor as the extensive cultivation of 

 peaches along the Camden and Atlantic Railroad. Orchards 

 there would rival those so recently celebrated in Delaware. 



&quot;Grapes were abundant, and plums without planting 

 natives of the soil offered their fruit gratuitously. This is 

 only a part, several other tracts, varying in size from 17,000 

 to 70,000 acres each, and many of smaller dimensions, are 

 now offered at the low sum of from 5 to $10 per acre, and 

 purchasers and settlers are actually pouring in by thou 

 sands, like pigeons to their roost. It seems almost incred 

 ible that land of this quality and price should so long re 

 main unnoticed by enterprising men, within thirty or forty 

 miles of Philadelphia, and it is altogether owing to the 

 Camden and Atlantic Railroad that it is now brought be 

 fore the public. 



&quot;Great as these developments are, they dwindle away 

 when compared with what the Air Line will unfold. We 

 who have lived along the Delaware river, and been bound 

 as with a spell to the Camden and Amboy road, cannot 

 appreciate the hidden treasures through the interior of our 

 State. Through this great Peninsula, a large part of which 

 is naturally good land, and all valuable for some purposes, 

 penetrated by lively streams, some of them navigable, many 

 above the limit of navigation would furnish strong power 

 for mills and factories, and all of them, in addition to nu 

 merous springs, afford an abundant supply of soft water. 



&quot;After the fires, which frequently pass through the 

 woods, destroying large quantities of timber, have abated, 

 Nature, ever active in good works, pushes forth a sponta 

 neous growth of rich, sweet grass, equally nutritious either 

 in the green or dry state, and so protected by dead bushes 



