The mere fact that it was paying, as rentals on its leased lines, annual sums far in excess of their earning capacity, necessarily prevented anything in the nature of profitable operation.

仅仅因为它在其租用线路上支付的租金远远超过其盈利能力， 这一事实必然会阻止任何具有盈利性质的业务。

The banks of Louisiana, South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia, it is true, had capital far in excess of the banks of the Northwest;but still they were relatively small compared with the financial institutions of the East.

诚然，路易斯安那、南卡罗来纳、佐治亚和弗吉尼亚的银行拥有的资本远远超过西北部的银行；但与东部的金融机构相比，它们仍然相对较小。