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while they would confer the highest advantages to the merchant, and trader, and mariner. It would enable them to ship and transport their goods, wares, and merchandise with despatch and certainty, would remove the long complained of difficulty of valuable shipments or cargoes delayed by contrary winds in the north and southern channels, where large fleets, fleets of 500 sail of merchant ships, have been detained by contrary winds for six weeks, and sometimes three months, with perishable cargoes, viz. fish, fruits, butter, cheese, meat, eggs, corn, oils, tallow, &c., which, by the aid of the rail-roads, may be brought to the markets over land from the Humber, Boston, Lynn, and Portsmouth, and other of the outports, without the well-known danger of shipwreck and loss of human life in rounding the forelands of our northern and southern channels.
These exports and imports may be made by aid of the railroads at Shoreham and Portsmouth in the English Channel, and cannot be impeded by contrary winds, or the peril of war,—also from the ports of the Humber, Boston, Lynn, and Yarmouth, or Lowesstoffe, on our northern coast, in the space of five hours, at the rate of about 5s. per ton. Thus many hundred valuable cargoes and human lives may be saved from shipwreck and capture.
These railroads will give advantages to His Majesty's government in the immediate and certain despatch of mails, couriers, troops, naval and military stores, and other munitions of war, both abroad and at home.
And, lastly, from the highly respectable classes of the foregoing evidence, given by landowners, farmers, graziers, salesmen, cornfactors, and others on the
