“ CONNECTICUT, a State in the North Atlantic division of the North American Union; bounded by Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Long Island Sound, and New York; gross area, 4,845 square miles; one of the original 13 States; number of counties, 8; population (1890) 746,258 ”

“ Railways.—There are about 1,000 miles of railway in the State. The New York, New Haven and Hartford has about 850 miles, the Central New York about 83 miles, and the Central Vermont about 58 miles. There has been practically no new construction of railways in recent years. ”

“ Copper and lead exist, but have never been mined with much profit. Silver occurs in minute quantities. There are immense quarries of red sandstone at Portland and Cromwell, and marble and limestone is quarried at Canaan and Washington, while the largest amount of orthoclase quarried in the United States comes from Glastonbury and Middletown. ”