UNITED STATES. 



123 



Jfames Length. Miles. 

 Susquehanna Division, Juniata to Northumber- 

 land 39 

 West Branch Division, Northumberland to 



Dunnstown (i6 

 North Branch Division, Northumberland to the 



Lackawanna 76 



Beaver Division, from Beaver to Mercer County 30 



French Creek Division 40 

 Pei.nsylvania and Ohio, Akron on Ohio Canal to 



Newcastle on Beaver Canal 8'2 

 Sandy and Beaver, Bolivar on Ohio Canal to mouth 



of Little Beaver 73 



Santee, from the Santee to the Cooper 22 



Names. Length. Miles. 



Savannah and Alatamaha CO 



Schuylkill, Philadelphia to Port Carbon 108 



Susquehanna, Columbia to Port Deposit 40 



Union, Middletown on the Susquehanna to Reading 82 

 "Wabash and Erie, Lafayette (Indiana) to Manhattan 



on the Maumee (Ohio), in progress 210 



To be extended to Terie Haute 80 

 Walhondinip, from Roscoe up Walhonding River 



(Ohio) 25 

 White Water, Cambridge City (Indiana) to Lavp- 



renceburg, in progress 76 



White Water and Cincinnati 25 



25. Railroads. The Americans have equally surpassed all other people in the number and 

 extent of their railroads, having in less than ten years constructed nearly 3,500 miles of these 

 artificial levels, over which carriages are propelled by locomotive steam-engines at the rate of 

 irom 20 to 25 miles an hour. Although this contrivance is less adapted than canals to the 

 conveyance of bulky articles, yet it possesses some advantages over that mode of transporta 

 tion, such as that of not being interrupted by ice, and that of being suited to some localities in 

 which artificial water-communications would be impracticable. The following table presents a 

 view of the principal railroads completed, or in actual progress, in the United States. 



Principal Railroads in the United States. 



Names. Lenglh. Miles. 



Alleghany Portage, Holidaysburg to Johnstown (Pa.), 

 connecting Central and Western Divisions of 

 Pennsylvania Canal 36^ 

 Auburn and Syracuse, Auburn to Syracuse (N. Y.) 25 

 Auburn and Rochester, Auburn to Rochester 7.5 

 Augusta and Athens, (Georgia), in progress 114 

 Baltimore and Susquehanna, Baltimore through York 



to Wrightsville 70 

 Baltimore and Ohio, completed to Harper's Ferry 80 

 Baltimore and Philadelphia, Baltimore through Wil- 

 mington to Philadelphia 92J 

 Baltimore and Washington 40 

 Boston and Concord, from Lowell to Concord (N. H.) CO 

 Boston and Lowell 25J 

 Boston and Maine, from Wilmington on Lowell rail- 

 road to Dover 45 

 Boston and Stonington, through Providence 89 

 Boston and Worcester. See Western Railroad. 

 Brunswick, Brunswick (Geo.) to the Appalachicola 220 

 Buffalo and Niagara Falls, (N. Y.) 23 

 Camden and Amboy, Delaware opposite Philadelphia 



to Amboy on the Raritan Gl 

 Catskill and Canajoharie, (N.Y.) 68 

 Central, Savannah to Decatur (Geo.) 270 

 Charleston and Cincinnati, (proposed) 600 



JXames. Length. Miles. 



Central. See Illinois. 



Clinton and Port Hudson, Louisiana 28 

 Columbia, Philadclpliia to fc'usquehanna at Colum- 

 bia 814 

 Cumberland Valley, Harrisburg to Chambersburg, 



Penn. 4:^ 

 Danville and Potlsville, Schuylkill to Susquehanna 52 

 Detroit and Pontiac 25 

 Detroit and St. Josephs, Detroit to Lake Michigan 200 

 Detroit and Shelby, Detroit to Utica 23 

 Eastern Shore, Elkton to Tangier Sound (Md ), (pro- 

 posed) 118 

 Eastern, iJoston to Newbury port 33 

 Erie and Kalamazoo, Toledo (Ohio) ^o Adrian (Mich- 

 igan) 33 

 Fayetteville and Western, N. C. (proposed) 

 Grand Junction, Decatur (Geo.) to the Tennessee 110 

 Georgia, Augusta to Decatur 150 

 Gettysburg and Wrightsville, (Pa.) 42 

 Harrisburg and Lancaster, (Pa.) 37 

 Hiwassee, Knoxville to tlie Hiwassee at Calhoun 75 

 Hudson and Berkshire, Hudson City to West Stoct- 



bridge, (Mass.) 32 

 Ilhnois State Works, in progress : 



Central, from confluence of Ohio and Mississippi 



