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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 222 222 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 56 56 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 56 56 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 34 34 Browse Search
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison 30 30 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 30 30 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 24 24 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 22 22 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 19 19 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 15 15 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
lly as large as New York would be, had neither possessed any more means of reaching the Great West than they possessed fifty years ago. She is almost at the head of the Chesapeake Bay. She is far surpassed by her neighbor Annapolis, in the advantage of port. She can only reach the great West by means of a railroad. The cheap conveyance by water has been denied to her by the peculiarity of her situation. Yet she numbers three or four hundred thousand now, against fifty or sixty thousand in 1830. These, however, are but a few of the marvels which the trade of the great West has wrought. It has built hundreds of magnificent cities all over the face of the western country. It has converted the country wherever it has passed into a garden. It has made the wilderness subside, and the desert to blossom like the rose. What the trade of Ophir and Tarshish was to Tyre, what the trade of the East was to Venice, what the trade of India was to England, the trade of the great West is to