Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the Directors of the Western Rail-Road Corporation, to the Stockholders: Submitted Feb. 13, 1839 At the date of the last Report, the whole line of the road eastward of Connecticut river, a distance of fifty-four miles, (with the exception of two miles adjoining the river), had been put under contract for grading, the graduation of twenty-seven miles of the lighter parts of it had been completed, and the work was in progress upon the remaining twenty-five miles. 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.