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Curious Calculation

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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- It woulii rcquiretwelve stage coaches, carrying fifleen ptssengera each, and ooe thousand two hundred horses, to take one hundred and eighty pass engere two hundred and forty miles in twenty-foiir hours, at the rate of ten miles an hour! One locomotivo sieam engine will take that number and go two trips ia the same timo, consequently will dn the work of two thousand four hundred horses! Again, it viould require thirty mail coaches (six passen gers eoclij and three tliousond horses, to take one hundred passengers nnd mail, two hundred and forty miles in twenty-four hours, at the rale of ten inücsan hours. One locomotive Btearn engine will take that number, and go two trips in the same limo, crnfequenlly will do the work of six thousand horses.A plan is on foot tobuild a plank road from Milwaukie, weshvard. The experiment of plank roads bas been tried in Canada, and found to work well. There are more than 100 miles in operalion and several olher roads are now in procets of construction, chicfly diverging frotn London. and passing through n level country, ranging from 150 (o 200 feet above Lake Erie, and flat, wet and diificult of draining. These rorms costs about 3.500 a mile. - Mom. Slar. Mr. Bnrntim, of the New York Museum, lias tent home from Enpleud i14,0CO as the proceeds of bui Bix weeks' exlubition o! Toiii ThtKjb. - The oggrepnlc óf prufite made ou' of'.liaf unfbrliiniio littJe BWBsfroisïtj e not

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Signal of Liberty
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