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10 collecting information, we have made frequent inquiries, and find that the work has been finished with fewer accidents than usually attend such great undertakings; this must be equally gratifying to the directors and to the public.

We shall now give an account of such objects as we have deemed specially worthy of notice on the line. Some of the seats of the nobility and gentry are opposite a portion of the Railroad which passes through a cutting; it is, however, not the less interesting to the intelligent traveller, to be aware that he is passing through a country which affords scope for such establishments; and as we have made the mile-posts the point from which to direct the attention, there will be no difficulty in imparting the information.

The towns in the vicinity of the Railroad form an important feature in its statistics, as some calculation of the probable success of such undertakings may be made, from a knowledge of their population and employments; as the moral character of a people may in some measure be determined by the number of their churches and institutions; to these, therefore, we have paid particular attention.