...little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practised, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." In 1833, a man in Connecticut thanked God that he lived "in a hilly country, where it was impossible...

...value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Yet the work went on, the road was completed to Worcester in 1835, to Springfield in 1839, and to Albany...

...value of the whole territory of Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." The Legislature did not treat the report quite so disrespectfully as Mr. Buckingham had done ; but...

...a railroad from Boston to Albany was "a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be impracticable but at an expense...as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Capt. Marryatt, the celebrated English novelist, while riding by stage through Western Massachusetts,...

...weeks." Hence wet and muddy roads, and the inability of the farmers to draw their produce to the market. every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Similar incredulity was encountered by Grldley Bryant, when he was seeking aid to establish his Granite...

...little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practised, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." In 1833, a man in Connecticut thanked God that he lived "ID a hilly country, where it wan impossible...

...value of the whole territory of Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." The Legislature did not treat the report quite so disrespectfully as Mr. Buckingham had done; but they...

...of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and, if practicable, every person of common sense knows it would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Yet it was built and prospered, and the great Commonwealth, to break its profitable monopoly, had afterward...

...of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and, if practicable, every person of common sense knows it would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Yet it was built and prospered, and the great Commonwealth, to break its profitable monopoly, had afterward...

...of a railroad from Boston to Albany, a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule of arithmetic, to be impracticable, but at an expense...as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." When the idea of constructing the Old Colon}' railroad was first advanced a public meeting was held...