RAILWAYS OP NEW YORK. 



9. From Boston three trunk-lines issue ; the chief of which passes 

 through the State of Massachusetts to Albany, on the Hudson. 

 This line of railway is 200 miles in length, and appears destined 

 to carry a considerable traffic. Its ramifications southward, 

 through the smaller states of New England, are numerous, chiefly 

 leading to the ports upon Long Island Sound, which commu- 

 nicate by steam-boats with New York. The first branch is 

 carried from Worcester, in Massachusetts, to New London on the 

 Sound, where it meets a short steam-ferry which communicates 

 with Greenport, at the eastern extremity of Long Island, from 

 which another railway, nearly fifty miles long, is carried to 

 Brooklyn, which occupies the shore of that island immediately 

 opposite New York, and communicates with the latter city by a 

 steam-ferry. 



Thus there is a continued railway communication from Boston 

 to New York, interrupted only by two ferries. 



Another branch of the great Massachusetts line is carried south 

 from Springfield, through Hartford to Newhaven; and a third 

 from Pittsfield to Bridgeport, both the latter places being on the 

 Sound, and communicating with New York by steamboats. 



The second trunk-line from Boston proceeds southwards to 

 Providence, and thence to Stonington, from which it communicates 

 by a ferry with the Long Island Railway. This trunk-line throws 

 off a branch from Foxburgh to New Bedford, where it communi- 

 cates by ferries with the group of islands and promontories 

 clustered round Cape Cod. 



A third trunk-line proceeds from Boston through the State of 

 Maine. 



10. Notwithstanding the speed and perfection of the steam 

 navigation of the Hudson, a railway is constructed on the east side 

 of that river to Albany. 



From Albany an extensive line of railway communication, 323 

 miles in length, is carried across the entire State of New York to 

 Buffalo, at the head of Lake Erie, with branches to some important 

 places on the one side and on the other. This line forms the 

 continuation of the western railway, carried from Boston to Albany, 

 and, combined with this latter, completes the continuous railway 

 communication from the harbour of Boston to that of Buffalo on 

 Lake Erie, making an entire length of railway communication, 

 from Boston to Buffalo, of 523 miles. 



The branches constructed from this trunk-line are not numerous. 

 There is one from Schenectady to Troy, on the Hudson, and 

 another from Schenectady to Saratoga ; another from Syracuse to 

 Oswego, on Lake Ontario ; and another from Buffalo to the falls of 

 Niagara, and from thence to Lockport. 



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