Eighty years' progress of the United States a family record of American industry, energy and enterprise: showing the various channels of industry and education through which the people of the United States have arisen from a British colony to their present national importance; giving . the vast improvements made in agriculture, cultivation of cotton, sugar, commerce, travel and transportation, steam engine, manufacture . With a large amount of statistical information, showing the comparative progress of the different states with each other, and, to some extent, this country with other nations. /