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Page 30
The rail - road ascends at the average rate below Reading , 535 19 0 of twenty
feet to the mile and one who leaves Port ... so nearly level that the horse which
drags above Reading , 176 1 2 the car , goes up it at the rate of ten miles an hour
.
The rail - road ascends at the average rate below Reading , 535 19 0 of twenty
feet to the mile and one who leaves Port ... so nearly level that the horse which
drags above Reading , 176 1 2 the car , goes up it at the rate of ten miles an hour
.
Page 139
89 From the Otsego Lake the Susquehanna flows in a The courses of the
Susquehanna and of the Tioga , southerly direction for about 20 miles , then turns
to from their heads to the point of junction , lie entirely in the southwest , and at
the end ...
89 From the Otsego Lake the Susquehanna flows in a The courses of the
Susquehanna and of the Tioga , southerly direction for about 20 miles , then turns
to from their heads to the point of junction , lie entirely in the southwest , and at
the end ...
Page 207
Stansbury , is 153 miles . From Dayton From the Kittanning Gazette . it connects
with the Ohio river , at Cincinnati , by means | ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY
PATRIOT GONE . of the Miami canal , sixty - five miles . The principal places on
the ...
Stansbury , is 153 miles . From Dayton From the Kittanning Gazette . it connects
with the Ohio river , at Cincinnati , by means | ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY
PATRIOT GONE . of the Miami canal , sixty - five miles . The principal places on
the ...
Page 385
On the Western division , 3 } miles Read in the Senate , December 7 , 1833 . of
canal 3 } The Canal Commissioners respectfully submit the following report : In
1831. On the West Branch division 424 miles , As the public improvements of ...
On the Western division , 3 } miles Read in the Senate , December 7 , 1833 . of
canal 3 } The Canal Commissioners respectfully submit the following report : In
1831. On the West Branch division 424 miles , As the public improvements of ...
Page 386
591 Columbia railway , being equal in cost to land a half miles of the feeder at the
town of Conemaugh , about thirty - six miles of double track of on the Western
division . railway completed 36 " Four years experience has convinced the board
...
591 Columbia railway , being equal in cost to land a half miles of the feeder at the
town of Conemaugh , about thirty - six miles of double track of on the Western
division . railway completed 36 " Four years experience has convinced the board
...
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