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may be said to be finished, comprising together a 
distance of nine hundred miles of turnpike 
road complete, are facts that shew, in a striking 
manner, the great and rapid progress of the state in 
prosperity, in enterprize, in population, in agricul- 
ture, in commerce, in wealth, in strength, and in 
national resource. 
The greatest extent of road in continuation, al¬ 
ready finished, is from the Massachusetts line, near 
Lebanon springs, through Albany, Schenectady and 
Utica, to Canandarque, in the county of Ontario, a 
distance of two hundred and thirty-four 
MILES, which, with a continuation of about ninety 
miles more to Black-Rock, on lake Erie, to be 
made by the Ontario and Genesee company, will 
intersect the state from east to west by a line of 
turnpike roads, three hundred and menty-four miles 
in length, 
To give a concise view of the general course and 
direction of these roads, and at the same time to 
shew their commercial importance, let,us consider 
the city of New-York as the centre of commerce, 
or the heart of the state, Hudson’s river as the 
main artery, the turnpike roads leading from it as 
so many great branches extending to the extremi¬ 
ties, from which diverge the innumerable small 
ramifications or common roads into the whole body 
and substance ; these again send off the capillary 
branches, or private roads, to all the individtial 
