Excerpt from Report on the Great Western Railway, Canada West: To the President and Directors, 1847 The completion of, your Railway simultaneously with the exten sion of the Central Railway, would connect Lake Michigan with Boston Harbour, and leave a break of only 65 miles to be filled to reach Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.