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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 686

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Atlantic to the Pacific, and Dr. Samuel E. Barlow proposed onefrom New York to the Columbia River, 2000 miles, to cost $10,000 per mile,and to carry traffic at about seven miles per hour. From 1841 to 1849 Mr.Asa Whitney urged Congress to grant land to aid him in building a line fromLake Michigan… … A RAILWAY TRAIN IN BELGIUM. when the federal government soon recognized the importance of havingdirect communication with the Pacific States, which were at that time iso-lated. Companies were organized in 1862, and work commenced in 1864,under government subsidies and military aid and protection.…

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