Per annum |of railway| run by | on | per day. | trains. | capital. --------------------------------------+----------+------------+---------- | £ | £ | £ | £ Eastern States, | | | | Atlantic States, | | | | Carolinas, Georgia, | | | | | Illinois, Missouri, | | | | Western States, | | Iowa, and Wisconsin | 1,835 | 7,338,290 | 5,762 | 3,999 |-------------+--------------+-------------+-------- Totals and averages | 10,289 | 66,653,907 | 9,632 | 6,478 ------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------- It must have given him about the slender straw rope, which stretched from the lovely cold face the warm stage of.