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MOTIVE POWER, &C.
It will not perhaps be necessary, in a worklike this, to explain at greater length the rela-tive merits of Canals and Rail-roads; localcircumstances may effect general results, butunless other causes transpire than the simpleabstract question of the two modes in compa-rison with each other, we have, by the appli-cation of mechanical power to Rail-roads, theadvantage of a less investment of capital, andalso a saving by the motive power; whichproduces, in the general economy of internalcommunication, a degree of importance that,combined with the celerity of dispatch, cannotfail of being of the utmost benefit to com-merce.
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