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veloped in their habits and pursuits up to the precise point, 
where necessity for comparative separation ceases, and the Di¬ 
vine wisdom that piled the mountains and scooped the valleys, 
has permitted their removal and filling up, that the middle 
way across the continent may he levelled and made straight, 
for the swifter marches of the armies that shall achieve the 
Industrial Millenium.” 3 
The first connecting railway of the Northwest was opened in 
1848. Thereafter the movement of promotion gathered 
strength so that the next ten years saw the map transformed. 
Values changed as one city after another felt the stimulus of 
s Quoted, in Smith, W. P., 104, from the issue of June 4, 1857. 
