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be seen at the landings where they were last used. These as well 

 as the timbers in the locks, are being broken up and used for fuel. 

 Moreover, stretches of the canals which are in evidence to-day, 

 tomorrow may be filled up in order to meet the ever-increasing 

 demands for the expansion of the Pennsylvania railway system. 

 At present only four canals are being operated in Pennsylvania.* 

 Their combined length is 240.88 miles — a small fraction of the total 

 mileage of the public- and private-owned works which existed 

 within the limits of the state during the second quiarter of the nine- 

 teenth century, when the principal avenues of inland transportation 

 were natural and artificial waterways. 



APPENDICES. 



Appendix I. — Memorial to the Legislature. 



The following is a copy of the memorial to the Legislature of 

 Pennsylvania prepared and issued by the "Committee of Twenty- 

 four," for general circulation throughout the state. This committee 

 was appointed at a public convention of the citizens of the city 

 and county of Philadelphia held on January 24th, 1825. A full 

 text of this memorial is contained in the United States Gazette 

 of February 11th, 1825. 



"To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the ConimonAvealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, 

 the Memorial of the Subscribers, Citizens of 

 County of respectfully sheweth: — 



That your Memorialists are deeply impressed with a sense of the 

 importance of a Canal ISTavigation in Pennsylvania, from the 

 Susquehanna to the Allegheny Rivers, and from the Allegheny 

 River to Lake Erie, and they think the work ought to be undertaken 

 by the State, and executed at the expense of the State, with the 

 least possible delay. 



Your Memorialists are fully convincedthat the present is a favor- 

 able moment for the commencement of the work. The skill and 

 experience which have been developed and acquired in the prosecu- 

 tion of similar enterprises in the State of Pennsylvania and other 

 States of the Union, will ensure its efficient and economical execu- 

 tion; and there is no doubt that it can be better done, and upon 



* DelaAvare di\-ision canal from Bristol to Easton, 60 miles: Lehigh Coal 

 and Xavigation from Coal Port to Easton, 48 miles; Pennsylvania canal from 

 ^lontoursville to Selinsgrove, 43 miles; Schuylkill Xavigation from Port 

 Clinton to Philadelphia, 89.88 miles. 



Trans. Conn. Acad.. Vol. XIII. 19 Nov., 1907. 



