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Excerpt from A Presentation of Causes Tending to Fix the Position of the Future Great City of the World in the Central Plain of North America: Showing That the Centre of the World's Commerce, Now Represented by the City of London, Is Moving Westward to the City of New York, and Thence, Within One Hundred Years, to the Best Position on the Great Lakes
The day may come when steam-propelled canal-boats will connect the commerce of the Ohio River, at Cincinnati with that of the Lakes, at Toledo; and, also, the commerce of the Mississippi, at Rock Island, with that of the Lakes, at Chicago and Toledo. The time may be fairly anticipated when an improved railroad, little over two hundred miles in length, will bring the railway commerce of Chicago in connection with lake transportation to the harbor of Toledo. It is only a question of the relative cost of freight, by 5220 miles of railway and 700 miles of lake. 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.
