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Excerpt from A Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States; Natural and Artificial, Present and Prospective: Corrected and Improved From the Edition of 1826, and Much Enlarged, From Authentic Materials, Down to the Present Time

In the interval, however, ere the social world can be thus ably and in extenso informed touching this great but youthful member of the commonwealth of civilized nations, and its com ponent qualities and materials, the present inquiry and partial delineation will, it is hoped, present something of a satisfactory character. It will lay Open to the intelligent reader at a dis tance, through a plain statement, a connected series of facts and circumstances appertaining to the one exclusive topic under taken; and, being unmixed with other subjects, save here and there some incidental matters that have claimed to be noticed, may, perhaps, on that account, be the better suited for convey ing a clear and impressive idea Of what the particulars stated are intended to designate, namely - the precise point of advancement arrived at, and actual prospects of the country in this department of her career in prosperity.

But as the actual existence of the various works of improve ment herein detailed, together with the mode and manner of their execution, necessarily implies, in the higher attributes of the nation, attainments, capabilities and views to correspond and harmonize, so there can be no doubt the enlightened reader and philanthropic economist and politician, will be enabled to elicit general conclusions nothing short Of being satisfactory to his own mind, and some particular ones, and both perhaps not the less certain of an early verification for being on a scale of no inconsiderable dimensions. And in aid Of his closer calcula tions as to particular points, it is hoped that a variety of suthen tic, statistical, and other information, and some remarks thereon, which will be found partly interspersed among the articles of this composition, and partly as an appendage, precedent to the General Rail Road article, the Canada article, and the Index, may be received with favour, and prove useful.

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