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which requires several hours to cross^ and though easily navigated, 

 trade is greatly impeded by this water barrier. The advantages of a 

 railway connection across the Irish Channel are many and easily 

 understood. Sucli a railway would shorten the time for crossing the 



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Allantic from America by a day or more, and develop terminal ports 

 on the Irish coast, thereby enormously increasing the local commerce, 

 and offering larger chances for employment and extended opportunities 

 to its people. The Irish railways would, in fact, become the through 

 routes from America to India and the far east, instead of being sub- 

 ordinated, as they now arc, for local business from Liverpool and Glas- 



