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part of this railway towards Baltimore is already opened 

 for traffic. 



Fioin Augusta in Georgia, to Charleston, South Caro- 

 lina, a railway is now in progress ICO miles in length. 



A rail-road has even been projected to extend trorn 

 New- York towards Missouri. A part of the distance 

 has heen already traversed, and the whole has been pro- 

 nounced by the son of De Wilt Clinton to he practicable, 

 at an expense double that of the Erie eannl, and but lit- 

 tle more than that of tlie present London bridge. It is 

 worthy of notice, that when the Erie canal was projected 

 in 1809, Mr Jefferson said it might be finished in a cen- 

 tury, and lived to acknowledge in 1S'26, that the age was 

 nearly a century belbre him. 



In New Jersey, a railway is now constructing across 

 the State from Ana boy bay, not far from New- York, to 

 Camden, opposite Philadelphia ; the distance is about six- 

 ty miles. 



In Massachusetts, projected routes have heen accu- 

 rately surveyed, from Boston to Providence, fortytwo 

 miles, to Brattleboro', 114 miles, to Albany, 200 miles, 

 also to Lowell and Worcester. The two last only, have 

 as yet been undertaken. In these several routes, (ex- 

 cepting to Brattleboro 1 ,) no stationary power is required, 

 the ascent in no case exceeding eighty feet in a mile, or 

 one foot in sixtyfive, this is an angle of less than one de- 

 gree. Ascents in roads even where great traffic prevails, 

 are sometimes ten degrees. The route to Albany rises 

 to an elevation of 1440 above the Connecticut river. 



A railway has also been projected from Brattleboro' on 

 to Whitehall on Lake Champlain. A more eligible route, 

 however, and one more likely to succeed, is that from 

 Boston to Ogdensburg on the outlet of Lake Ontario. 

 This would pass through Lowell, Concord, N. II., Mont- 

 pelier, down the valley of Onion river and near Burling- 

 ton ; thence from Plattsburg on the opposite side of the 

 lake to Ogdensburg. The whole extent is 350 miles, 

 and though not accurately surveyed, has been ascertain- 

 ed to be practicable, requiring but three stationary en- 

 gines, (as in seventeen miles at Lackawana,) and in no 

 other instance having a greater ascent than fifty or sixty 



