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Excerpt from A Historical Review of the New York and Erie Railroad
Their military object made it necessary for them-to traverse and reconnoiter the valleys of the rivers which intersect or border those counties; the feas ibility of which, for a national avenue to the West, then felt to be necessary for military purposes, and foreseen to be necessary for civil and social objects, seems to have suggested and induced them to propose, what they termed, an Appz'an Way, to be constructed under the direction of the General Government. They accordingly, by correspondence with individ uals, and by means of the public prints, called the8 the new york and erie railroad.
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