. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. tons Fol-ly), and on Saturday, at 9 p. m., it reached Albany. During a partof the way, the wondrous vessel (smaller than the smallest ferryboatof to-day) was gazed upon by crowds of admiring spectators, who gath-ered along the banks of the river. 9. Railroads.—Although it is to Stephenson, an Englishman,that we are indebted for the adaptation of the locomotive to iron roads,still America takes the lead in railroad construction. In 1830 therewere in the United States 23 miles of railroad; in 1895, 232,755 1
. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. tons Fol-ly), and on Saturday, at 9 p. m., it reached Albany. During a partof the way, the wondrous vessel (smaller than the smallest ferryboatof to-day) was gazed upon by crowds of admiring spectators, who gath-ered along the banks of the river. 9. Railroads.—Although it is to Stephenson, an Englishman,that we are indebted for the adaptation of the locomotive to iron roads,still America takes the lead in railroad construction. In 1830 therewere in the United States 23 miles of railroad; in 1895, 232,755 1869 the first Pacific or transcontine7ital railroad was railroad is 1,800 miles long, and it completes the union betweenthe Atlantic and the Pacific. In one week the traveler can pass fromBoston to San Francisco. This great highway has linked the West tothe East by iron bands, has carried thousands of pioneers into the hith-erto wild country along its route, developed fresh sources of industryand mines of wealth, and opened up the United States to the silks,. THE CLEKM 368 EXCELSIOR HISTORY. teas, and spices of Asia. American ingenuity has solved the problemwhich foiled Columbus and the older navigators, and has made foritself a route to India. 10, Literature.— During the nineteentli century,onr literature made remarkable progress. American authorsof considerable merit have arisen, and their works are readand appreciated on both sides of the Atlantic. As prose writers, tlie following are the most noted : Washington Irving (1783-1859), of New York, sometimes called the American Goldsmith, the author of KnickerhocTcer (a humoroushistory of New York), Tlie Sketch Booh, The Life of Columbus, andThe Life of Washington. Wm. 11. Prescott (1796-1859), of Massachusetts,the author of i^e?-^/-na?id a7id Isabella, Conquest of Mexico, Conquest of Peru, etc. Unfor-tunately, Prescott is often biased by religious prejudice, and thus thebeauty of his works is marred. Jared Sp
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