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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he Columbia river from where I to either pole again; the changes of thesemonsoons are caused by the relative positionof the planet to its primary. (This is an im-portant truth for the consideration of a3ro-nautists.) Olympia. the seat of our territorial govern-ment, is situated at the southern extremity ofa succession of inland harbors, the extent andcapacity of which are not equaled in theworld; they abound in fish of almost everyvariety, and will, some day, become the ac- now write.is more abundant at Pugets Soundand on Vancouvers Island, and, no doubt itsdeposits abound throughout the whole extentof the northwest coast. Interminable forest3of fir, cedar and pine skirt all these waters,affording lumber, spars, and ship timber ofthe finest quality and greatest abundance asarticles of export. Gold, silver, copper, lead,iron, coal, all abound in various localities, andin the Russian Possessions, copper is so abun-dant, that it induces the opinion that it may RAILROAD RECORD-SUPPLEMENT.
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extend diagonally across the continent, de- ! opened up to tlie enterprise of American citi-veloping itself on the northern shore of Lake ) zens—the Oriental commerce pours the col- Superior, with traces on the Atlantic sea-board in Connecticut The whale fisheries of the Pacific oceanand the China seas, has ever attracted the lected treasure of a thousand ages into thebosom of the great Republic, while the gar-den of the continent and the Eden of theworld send forth the rich products of its pro- capital and attention of commercial men, and ! lific soil to feed the pauper millions of thewill in the future, engage a vast amount of; East; the wooden cross of Paganism bows inAmerican capital and American shipping, reverence to the Eagle and the Banner, andwhose enterprising sons will draw forth the the gloom of ignorance and superstition is untold treasures of the mighty deep. But what are all the advantages I haveenumerated, in a national point of view, tothe blessings flowing immediat

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