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intersects the Gulf and West India Transit Eaihvay at Callahan ; with 

 the Florida Central Railway, which intersects the Gulf and West India 

 Transit at Baldwin ; connects at Lake City with the Jacksonville, Pen- 

 sacola and Mobile Eaihvay, which, at Ellaville, intersects the Suwannee 

 River, which is navigable for steamers to Cedar Keys ; at Live Oak con- 

 nects with the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway ; at Tallahassee 

 with the Railway at the Gulf at Saint Mark's ; and at Chattahoochee 

 with the Atlantic and Western Railway, now in process of construction 

 to Mobile, and with lines of steamers to Apalachicola, Eufaula, Ala., 

 and Columbus, Ga. All rail routes, with close connections and through 

 parlor and sleeping cars for passengers and fast freight lines, with ven- 

 tilated cars for fruit and vegetables, connect Florida with Montgomery, 

 Atlanta, Louisville, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, and Chicago, in the West; 

 Savannah, Charleston, Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, 

 New York, and Boston, in the North, thus affording the largest facili- 

 ties for rapid transit with the numerous competing lines, and the ocean 

 steamers prevent exorbitant charges. 



The completion of the lines of railway now under construction will 

 render all portions of the State immediately accessible. The State au- 

 thorities have granted about 16,000,000 of acres of her swamp lands in 

 aid of works of internal improvements, thus giving a powerful impetus 

 to these enterprises, while Northern capital is pushing them to rapid 

 completion. 



No less than rive lines of railway are now in progress in East Florida, 

 running south, with the view of reaching Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor, 

 Indian River, and .Key West. 



1st. The Tropical Railway, an extension of the Peninsular, is progress- 

 ing rapidly from Ocala southward, with its iron purchased, and more 

 than a thousand hands at work. 



2d. The Florida Southern, from Palatka to Gainesville, is pushing 

 south also from Ocala to the eastward of the Peninsula. 



3d. The South Florida, from Sanford, is extending southward still 

 farther to the east. 



4th. The Live Oak, Rowlands Bluff and Charlotte Harbor Railway 

 is backed by a powerful company. 



5th. The Jacksonville, Saint Augustine and Halifax River Railway 

 is under construction, from Jacksonville to Saint Augustine, with a 

 view to an ultimate extension down the coast to the Indian River. 



The Atlantic and Western Railway, an extension of the Jacksonville, 

 Peusacola and Mobile Railway, from Chattahoochee to Pensacola, is 

 under contract and being rapidly constructed, with a view to immedi- 

 ate completion. 



A large portion of the route of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key 

 West Railway has been surveyed, and no doubt exists of the early com- 

 mencement of that important enterprise. 



Those in process of construction, and others projected, with the sys- 



