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The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Ho for Hyde Park! (search)
ts markets, its docks, its arsenals, its girdle of colonies, and fortresses encircling the globe,--composing an empire larger than ever obeyed the laws of Rome. The pen cannot describe the animation of its harbors, the activity of its commercial and manufacturing cities, the extent of its rural industry. Figures alone can convey an idea of its immensity. Great Britain, which is only two hundred leagues long, and the soil of which is far from rivalling in richness the plains of Lombardy or Aragon, yields annually to the labor of the husbandman a revenue of about £140,000,000 sterling; an income, great as it is, which is almost doubled by the value of similar productions in its dependencies and colonies. Its industry, commerce and manufactures yield a revenue superior to that magnificent landed estate; thanks to its inexhaustible mines, to its admirable system of internal communications, conducted by eighty six canals and seventy lines of railroad, in all, the general income of the B