Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . nation. The canal and railway systems in the United States are the prod-uct chiefly of the century just closed. So also is navigation by steam on whichriver commerce chiefly relies for transportation. This was begun in the year1807. The first canals made in this country were two short ones, for a waterpassage around the South Hadley and Montague Falls, in Massachusetts. Thesewere constructed in 1792. At about the same time the Inland Lock NavigationCompanies in the State of New York began the
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . nation. The canal and railway systems in the United States are the prod-uct chiefly of the century just closed. So also is navigation by steam on whichriver commerce chiefly relies for transportation. This was begun in the year1807. The first canals made in this country were two short ones, for a waterpassage around the South Hadley and Montague Falls, in Massachusetts. Thesewere constructed in 1792. At about the same time the Inland Lock NavigationCompanies in the State of New York began their work. The Middlesex Canal,connecting Lowell with Boston Harbor, was completed in 1808, and the greatErie Canal, 363 miles in length, was finished in 1825, at a cost of almost $8,000,-000 [this to be enlarged by plans already in progress]. The aggregate lengthof canals built in the United States is 3,200 miles. RAILWAYS. The first railway built in the United States was one three miles in was completed in 1827; horse power was used. The first use of a locomotive Evolution inRailroading. Modem Vestibule Railroad Train in this country was in 1S29, when one was put upon a railway that connected thtcoal mines of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company with Now,railways form a thick network all over the United States east of the Mississippi,and are rapidly spreading over the States and Territories beyond, to the Pacific. THE TELEGRAPH. To these facilites for commercial operations mustbe added the electro-magnetic telegraph, an Americaninvention, as a method of transmitting intelligence, andgiving warning signals to the shipping and agriculturalinterests concerning the actual and probable state of theweather each day. The first line, forty miles in length,was constructed between Baltimore and Washington in1844. Now the lines are extended to every part of ourUnion, and all over the civilized world, traversing oceansand rivers, and bringing Persia and New York with
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