ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC. 



passengers and goods on the American railways. No such general 

 return, however, is attainable. In my work on Railway Economy, 

 in the absence of more complete information, I have given the neces- 

 sary statistical data to determine the commerce [on nearly twelve 

 hundred miles of railway in the States of New England and in 

 that of New York, from which I was enabled to calculate all 

 the circumstances attending the working of these lines. I have, 

 accordingly, given these in the following table : 



TABTTLAB. ANALYSIS of the average daily Movement of the Traffic on 

 Twenty-eight principal Railways in the States of New England 

 and in the State of New York during the year 1847. 



* The reports do not supply the tonnage and mileage of these railways 

 separately, and the above numbers are estimated by analogy with the other 

 American railways. 



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