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Excerpt from Report of the Directors of Internal Improvement on the Subject of Rail Roads: Transmitted to the Legislature, January Session, 1830
It will be seen, that the State of Pennsylvania is deeply committed to the objects of Internal Improvement. The extent to which she is at this time engaged, in Canals and Railways, either on the public account or in joint stock associations of her Citizens, exceeds Twelve hun dred miles, at an estimated cost of Fifteen Millions of Dollars. The Committee found no degree of discour agement entertained, on account of the magnitude of these undertakings, or from any obstacles which had been presented to their accomplishment. On the other hand, they met every where, on the routes of their loca tion, the strongest manifestation of the improvement of country, by the progress of the works, and received as surances of the entire dependence of the interests of trade, manufactures and agriculture, upon their success ful completion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
