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Railroads, 134 et seq.; see also names of railroads.

Revolutionary War, plans for payment of debt of, 2-3.

Rhodes, Mayor of Philadelphia, 30.

Rideau canal system, 160.

Rivers and harbors, government policy of improvement, 12; Chicago convention (1846), 169.

Roads, 44 et seq., 83; tolls, 59-60; see also Cumberland Road.

Robinson, Moncure, 139-140.

Roosevelt, Theodore, quoted, 176.

Rumsey, James, 12; general manager of Potomac Company, 32; steamboat experiments, 101, 102, 103, 106; Virginia grants monopoly to, 106; Fulton and, 108.

Russell, Majors, and Waddell found Overland Stage Company, 189.

Rutherfordton Trail, 19.