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Frankfurt by Darmstadt to the borders of Baden (called the Main-Neckar 

 Line) with branches to Offenbach, in all 38|- miles. 6. In Hanover : from 

 Hanover to Brunswick ; from Hildesheim by Celle to Harburg (the two 

 roads cross each other at Lehrte) ; from Hanover by Wunstorf to Bremen ; 

 and from Wunstorf to Minden, in all 214 miles, without counting the tracts 

 lying in the territories of Prussia, Hesse, Brunswick, Lippe-Schaumburg. 

 and Bremen. 7. In Brunswick : from Oschersleben by Wolfenbiittel and 

 Brunswick to the borders of Hanover ; also from Wolfenbuttel to Neustadt 

 in the Hartz ; in all 70 miles. In Saxony (with Saxony- Altenburg) : the 

 Saxony-Bavarian railroad from Leipzig by Altenburg, Reichenbach, and 

 Plauen, to the borders of Bavaria (completed, with the exception of the 

 part from Reichenbach to Plauen, to be ready in 1851), with a branch to 

 Zwickau ; also the Saxony-Bohemian road from Dresden to Konigsstein 

 (the continuation of which, to the Bohemian borders, is in progress, and 

 mostly finished), in all 99f miles. 



Roads built and equipped by joint stock companies are as follows: 1. In 

 Austria : the Kaiser- Ferdinand railroad from Vienna by Lundenburg and 

 Prerau to Oderberg, where it joins on to the Prussian railroads, with 

 branches from Vienna to Stockerau, from Genserndorf to the borders of 

 Hungary (continued to Pressburg), from Lundenburg to Briinn, and from 

 Prerau to Olmiitz, in all 253 miles. Also the Vienna-Gloggnitz railroad, 

 from Vienna by Baden and Viennese-Neustadt to Gloggnitz, with branches 

 to Bruck on the Leitha, to Laxenburg and to Oedenburg, 74|- miles. 

 Finally, the Budweis-Linz-Gmundner horse road, the oldest railroad m 

 Germany, which was partly m use in 1828, 122 miles long. 2. In Bavaria : 

 the short road from Niirnberg to Fiirth, notable as being the first German 

 road on which steam was used (opened December 8, 1835) ; also on the 

 left bank of the Rhine, the Palatine Ludwicr's road from Ludwia-shafen and 

 Speier by Neustadt and Kaiserslautern to Berbach, 69 miles. 3. In Heste, 

 Nassau, and the Territory of the free town of Frankfurt : the Taunusroad, 

 from Frankfurt on the Main to Wiesbaden, with branches to Biberich and 

 Soden, 28f miles ; also the short road from Frankfurt to Hanau, 9 miles. 

 4. In Kur-Hesse : the Frederick- William-Northern railroad from the 

 borders of "Saxe- Weimar at Gerstungen, by way of Cassel, to Carlshafen on 

 the Weser, 85 miles. 5. In Saxony : the Leipzig-Dresden road, 71 J 

 miles ; also the Saxony-Silesia road from Dresden by way of Lobau to 

 Gorlitz with branches from Lobau to Zittau, 85 miles ; the Chemnitz-Riesa 

 road from Riesa by Dobeln to Limmritz (the road has stopped at this point), 

 18 J miles. 6. In Prussia and the neighboring territories (Saxony, Anhalt, 

 Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Lauenburg, Hambm^g, Liibeck, Saxe-Weimar, 

 Saxe-Gotha). a. The Lower Silesia-Mark road from Berlin by Frankfurt 

 on the Oder to Breslau, with branches from Kohlfurt to Gorlitz, and from 

 Hansdorf by Sagan to Glogau, in all 285 miles, h. The Cologne-Minden 

 road, 170 miles long, with branches from Miinster to Hamm, 20| miles, and 

 from Dortmund to Elberfeld, 35^ miles, c. The Berlin-Hamburg road, 168 

 miles, d. The Berlin- Anhalt road from Berlin by Jiiterbog, Wittenberg, 

 and Dessau, to Kothen, with a branch from lilterbog to Roderau at Riesa, 

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