The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-30
RAIL ROADS AND CANALS.

RAIL ROADS AND CANALS.
"A volume has recently been published at
Philadelphia, by Thomas Earle, Esq, formerly
chichester, in this County, entitled. "a Trea-
Use on Rail Roads and Internal Communica-
tions, compiled from the best and latest author.
tiles; with original suggestions and remarks. !"
1t contains fund of information ON the sub
jects of which it treats, and is illustrated by
plates of locomotive engines of various kinds,
and by maps, showing the extent of internal
Improvements, completed and projected, in the
United States.
For the following abstract from the work, We
are indebted to the Salem Gazette.
In his eighth and ninth chapters, Mr.. Earle
gives an account of the rail roads and canals in
the United States. From this statement it ap-
pears, that there are about l343 miles of canal
and other artificial navigation completed, 1884
in progress, and 40S projected.
OF rail roads, IA miles have been completed,
422 are in progress, and 697 projected.
These statistics are necessarily incomplete,
but they are not without interest.
In the whale of New England, the extent of
artificial navigation completed is 72 miles, in
progress liz miles, most, if not all of which is
by this time completed.
In New York, the extent of the finished ca.
mails is 564 miles-projected, Is miles.
In New Jersey, the Morris canal, 100 miles in
length, is said to be nearly finished. Tho Della
ware and Raritan canal which has been project
ed, will be thirty miles long.
Mr.. Earle estimates the extent of canal and
other artificial navigation completed in Penn
sylvania, to be 4S0 mles-in progress $50
projected 36S miles. Total one thousand and
ninety-eigM miles
The artificial navigation completed in Penn
sylvania, is the Schuylkill l03 miles, the Union
81 miles, the Lehigh 46a miles, the Cones
toga Is miles, the Lackawaxen 25 miles (al
these are the works of private companes,) and
200 miles Of State Canal. Two hundred and
fifty miles more of the State Canal have been
commenced, nearly all of which Mr.. Earle says,
will, it is eIpee:cd, be completed during the
present year. =" Surveys he adds "have been
made for canal from Pttsburg to Erie, by
wav of the Beaver and Shenango, length
leo miles for extonaions on West Branch Of
Susquehanna, from Muncy Hills to Bald Eagle
Creek, 46 miles: for do. on North Branch, from
Nanticoke Falls to the New York line, 1902
miles; and from Hunterdon to Frankstown, on
the Juniata, 40 miles. These acM probably be
soon made, unless rail roads shall be substitut.
ed in their stead ;"
The extent Of work done on the Potomac
the line of this projected canal is 800 miles.
In Virginia, about l2l miles of artificial navl-
cation have been completed and in N. Carroll
ma, about AZ miles
A canal $50 miles in length has been com
menced in South Carolina; and another, gu
miles in length has been begun in Georgia.
The Ohio State Canal, BOG miles long, is said
to be now nearly finished. The Miami and
Ohio canal, 265 miles long, is navigabe for
about 20 miles.
A rail rond Quincy three miles long has
been completed in Massachusetts, Thirteen.
miles of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road are
said to be completed. The residue of the "a
miles Of finished rail road is in Pennsylvania,
viz the Mauch Chunk, 8 miles long, the Mill
Greek, miles, the Lackawaxen l6 miles The
Sckuylkill Valley road 10 miles long, and the
Mount Carbon Rail Way, miles long, are
nearly finished. The projected Railways are,
tho Allegheny Portage, 344 miles, Lykem's
Vallnv, Is miles, the little Sckuylk, IL miles.
11e BBavUT- Nv~lasS, tho Swatara. md the
Pine Greek. The length of the last three is
not given.
The principal rail roads that have been pro-
iected out of Pennsylvania, are the Baltimore
Roads to the Ohio and the Susquehanna roads
from Boston To Brattleboro' in Vermont to
Albany, and 10 Providence,--from Albany to
Schenectady-frO Camden to Amhoy--from
Newcastle to Frenchtown-from Charleston to
Hamburg from Lexington to Louisville.