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Identifier: railroadrecordjo1856cinc (find matches)
Title: Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: Cincinnati (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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from thehighway itself!. A new world of hope, of in-terest, of commerce, of wealth, of glory, is swept away by the rising splendor of the in- jtellectual sun of Liberty. We justly venerate the fathers and found-1ers of the Republic, but how much more willfuture generations venerate those who areinstrumental in accomplishing this great good 7 Would to God, that every Americanearth was lighted with the fire of our fore-fathers—the fire of patriotism that kindledthe revolution—then would their motto be,the Continental Railroad—the Highway ofNations—the European and the OrientalCommerce ! Then, indeed, might we all ex-claim with the French tourist, as he ascendedthe summit of the Allegheny mountains andlooked over into the great valley of the Mis-sissippi, after a moment of breathless and be-wildered suspense, Attention, the Universe!Nations, about face!! Behold the seat ofEmpire!!! Your obedient servant, GEO. B. SIMPSON. ■ RAILROAD RECORD-SUPPLEMENT, RAILROAD RECORD-SUPPLEMENT.
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isequcncee, which gently fluw from the pole towards the equa-tor during the summer season, and from theequator towards the pole during the winterseason, there exists a difference in the meantemperature of the atmosphere of 14 deg. insummer, and 18 deg. 12 minutes in winter;this difference is in fnvor of the Pacific sea-board, snd develops the astonishing truth,that from the some parallel of latitude, themean temperature of the atmosphere on thePacific coast, is carried 840 geographicalmiles to the north in summer, ond 1092 geo-graphical miles in winter ! This is owing,pahraps, to the simple foct, that (here exists upon the planet four wind currents, two ineach hemisphere, semi-annual in their course,which flow in a dense surface current fromthe pole towards the equator, where theybecome healed, rarity, ascend and flow backto either pole again; the changes of thesemonsoons arc caused by the relative positionof the planet to its primary. (This is on im-portant truth for the consideratio

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