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Atlantic Gulf Railroad from St. Mary's, Georgia, to Cedar Keys, 

 Florida, with the view of making a direct line, by the shortest route, 

 between the Cresent City of the South and the Empire City of the 

 North. There are also other railroads completed and in progress, 

 which are destined to aid greatly in developing the resources and 

 wealth of this young State. 



Georgia is called the New England of the South. She has built 

 more railroads, with her own money, than any State in the Union, and 

 she has a larger chain of them than any other, save Massachusetts, the 

 greatest State for the population in the known world. Along the line 

 of her Great Western Railroad, now nearly completed from Savannah 

 to Chattanooga, near the Tennessee line, thriving towns have sudden- 

 ly grown up, where a few years since hardly an acre was occupied 

 by civilized man. The capital invested in her railroads, canals, with 

 other modes of land and water transportation, mining and manufac- 

 tures, is not far fiom fifty-five millions of dollars. She is at this time 

 advancing more rapid in manufactures, and especially cotton manu- 

 factures, than any State in the South or North. 



There is hardly a county in the State where there is not a factory. 

 Columbus is destined to be a large manufacturing city. The city has 

 already made great progress, and her water power and other facilities 

 are capable of increasing this interest to almost any extent. Her 

 system of railroads, like those of Massachusetts, are penetrating into 

 every portion of the Commonwealth. Agriculture is also in a heal^ 

 thy and prosperous condition. Emigration is rapidly tending to this 

 enterprising State. 



Alabama, though comparatively a young State, has more manufac- 

 tures than any other State in the Union of her age. Prattville is a 

 flourishing manufacturing town. So is also Tuscaloosa, the former 

 capital of Alabama. She has a capital of at least twenty millions 

 of dollars invested in railroads, canals, and other means of transpor- 

 tation, with mining and manufactures. The Mobile and Ohio rail- 

 road, an enterprise of vast magnitude, is now under construction. 

 When this great work is completed, Mobile must become a flourish- 

 ing commercial and manufacturing city. There are other roads of 



