Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the first German paperappeared at Germantown, in 1739.There were not fewer than six maga-zines before the Revolution. TheAmerican Daily Advertiser was the firstdaily paper in America, and commencedits daily appearance in 1784. ThePittsburgh Gazette, the first newspaperin the western part of the state, beganabout 1786. An imperfect list of theperiodical journals published in thestate, between the close of the Revolu-tionary war and 1828, given in the Amer-ican Almanac for 1835, names thirty-six.The number has since greatly increased,in every department. Railroads.—The great line of trans-portation is to extend from Philadelphiato Pittsburgh, 336 miles, overcoming2,380 feet elevation. Of this, 108 mileshave been completed, to Harrisburg, andthe remaining 228 will probably be inuse ere long. The middle of threeroutes surveyed is likely to be prefer-red, which crosses the Susquehannahfour miles above Harrisburg. Thisroute, for 104 miles beyond, has nograde exceeding twenty-five feet per
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220 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. mile, and is everywhere of easy con-struction. The great difficulty occurs atthe mountains. A connexion will prob-ably be hereafter made with the railwayat Pittsburgh, meeting the Erie canalat Beaver, and extending to Erie, onLake Erie. Connexion will be hadwith the Pennsylvania canal, and withthe numerous Ohio railroads, as well aswith those of Michigan and Illinois be-yond. Thus channels will be openedfrom Philadelphia to almost eveiy im-portant point in the north and west;and the results must prove highly im-portant to that city. The following is alist of the freights of one Imndred weight,between that city and several importantpoints : to Cleveland, Ohio, by railroad,64 cents; to Toledo, by railroad, 76 cents;to Cincinnati, by way of Pittsburgh andrivei-, 76 cents. The Merchants Magazine, just quo-ted, well describes Pennsylvania in thefollowing figurative language :— She is, indeed, the keystone state.While one arm rests on the Atla

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