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TITION OF RIVAL LINES. The Long Islnnd Railroad Company w average 30 miles nn hour on their ad of 95 miles. On some trips, tho rs have run 38 miles per hour. As on as the road is fenced in, and cattle bo e kept off the track by station keepers, is the case on the fast routes in Engna, that speed can be accelerated to 45 nv iles an hour without the least danger to e passengers. The public evident ly deand the highest speed - for the quickest ute is always the best patronized. The ong Island company are already reapg the benefits of their enterprise. The raihvays between here and BufFalo ill not average more than 16 miles an p( 5ur. On the Western railway (on acOt] )-jnt of the high grades) the speed will Dt average more than twenty miles an Dur. This is about the average run on ie best raihvays in New England, which ïows that the Long Island is the fastest )ute in this country. The remarkable vel of the country through which it asses, as well as the absence of bridges, P( enders it probably as good a route for peed as there is in the United States or l iurope. They already run 60 miles an " tour through the dense population of Sngland. There is no reason why that ihould not be done here. While speaking of the speed of railway locomotives, we can very properly allude to that of steamboats. The new boats lately brought out on the Hudson, such as the Oregon and the Hendrik Hudson, can, with the tide, make 24 miles in one hour,but they will now average more than 18 miles an hour with the same ease they used to run 12 miles. There was a time when six miles an hour was considered high speed. Yet it is manifest that steamboats can not be made to go as fast as railway locomotives. The resistnnce of the dense medium of the water must of necessity be so much greater than the ihin air. By an eminent naval constructor, twenty-five miles an hour is considered the maximum of steamboat power. It will also be remarked that the largest steamboats run the fastest. There was a time when it was considered that very large boats must be considered slow. But experience shows this to be otherwise. A boat of 1000 tons will do better than one of 500 tons, because the wheels can be made so much the larger, and therefore they can have more power. This is the more gratifying too, as the increased capacity required for speed, adds largely to the comfort of the traveling public, and thus in making a fast boat the pro' prietors are compelled to make a roomy i and henee comfortable boat. This is o gain both ways. Fulton never dreamed of such enormous wheels (36 feet in diameter) as are now used. Pursuing the 3 same principie, to attain great speed, rail ■tmv 1nínmntoc nrp r.nnstnnt 1 v made lar