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Excerpt from On the Railway Connections of Philadelphia With the Central West: Letters of Prof. Edward D. Mansfield, of Cincinnati, to Job R. Tyson, Esq., LL. D., Of Philadelphia In regard to our country, the hues of umon can only pomt Inwards Allow me, therefore, to take a hut from yourself, and address a letter or two on these public Interests to you, an enllghtened and In uen tial c1tizen of philadelphia My subject wi11 be The railway connections OF philadelphia with the central west Your own letters, whlle they are more distinctly on the Importance of forelgn com merce, prove what 15 plan to see In all the Atlantlc cities, that there Is In them all a profound convictlon of the great Importance of the western trade, and an earnest strife to share In Its profits The ques tion with philadelphia, then, 13 preclsely what It Is for each of the others What Is the shortest and cheapest route to the central west? For, It re qulres no superlor sagacrty to percee, that on the shortest and cheapest [me the largest share of the traffic Wlll pass The strife In each crty 18 to get the shortest line possible In regard to that let me make, In advance, two remarks The first 18, that when we come to ultzmate results, the geographlcal elements of the country must ever exercise over trade the most controlllng In uence, and, secondly, that In regard to those geographlcal elements, and then ultimate In uences, there have been, and are yet, most erroneous Ideas entertalned, even by en lightened men, In the eastern c1t1es A few words Wlll explaln what I mean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."