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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Interior Communication in General: With Original Experiments, and Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Rail-Roads The greatest care has been used in the prosecution Of the different experiments, and the most minute details are given, in order that the reader may be able to judge of the credit to which they are entitled; niy object has been. To furnish practical. 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.