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ture, or rich in minerals. Canals already connect 

 these lakes with the valley of the Mississippi, and 

 with the navigable waters of her tributaries, which, 

 extending twenty thousand miles, communicate with 

 forty thousand miles of shores unrivalled in fertility. 

 But more rapid modes of communication will this year 

 be opened. The railroad from Cincinnati to Sandus- 

 ky, built by the aid of the citizens of Boston, will 

 bring the Ohio within a journey of three days ; 

 enabling the traveller to reach Boston from Cincin- 

 nati in twelve hours less time than he can Baltimore, 

 although the latter place is three hundred miles the 

 nearest. 



" But these are but a small part of the railways 

 that are to increase the prosperity of Boston. There 

 are already in process of construction roads stretch- 

 ing towards Montreal, Burlington, Ogdensburg ; roads 

 branching from Albany will reach Kingston, and 

 extend thence through Canada West ; others running 

 from Buffalo to Detroit on both sides of Lake Erie, 

 will ere long reach the upper sources of the Missis- 

 sippi ; and the child is now bom who will see them 

 terminate at the Pacific. The time may come when 

 the expectation that led Columbus to seek a passage 

 to India from Europe by proceeding west, will be 



