Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners of the Hydrographic Survey of the State of Maine, 1867 The railway, the great agency of modern civilization, overcomes natural boundaries, enabling communities separated hitherto by all but impassable barriers, to become united as one, creating not only new social and political relations, but new centers of com merce and trade. 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.