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and another is in progress at the upper end. The almost in- 

 calculable interest which Philadelphia has in the completion 

 of the scheme, will I hope cause our citizens effectually to 

 aid the company incorporated to carry it on. Its accomplish- 

 Dientwould give life and activity to a large tract of country, 

 (now comparatively dull and inactive) by the numerous man- 

 ufactures and labour saving machinery that would be erected 

 ou each side of the river: by the employment of the lame and 

 aged persons, who are now a heavy expense to the adjoin- 

 ing counties and to the city; and by the value of the labour 

 of the hardy yeomanry of the country in agriculture; and 

 the numerous mechanical employments to which a thriving 

 state of it, and of manufacturing establishments have inva- 

 riably been found to give rise; and by the cheap and steady 

 transportation of agricultural produce, coal of the best kind.* 

 wood for fuel, sawed timber, stone, marble, iron ore, and 

 wrought iron, and lime, all or part of which are now brought 

 downhy land at an comparatively immense expense, or only 

 for a short time during the precarious and short continued 

 rise of the river, in time of freshes. 



As upon an occasion like the present it is proper to men- 

 tion everj thing tending in anyway to promote the agricul- 

 tural interest, f beg leave to call the attention of the Soci- 

 ety to the subject of saving banks. The effect of these in- 

 stitutions in aiding industry, by the inducement they offer 

 to those engaged in agricultural and other employments, to 

 lay up a small portion of their daily, weekly, and monthly 

 earnings, and to deposit them in a bank, by which the temp- 

 tations to spending are greatly diminished, are so obvious, 

 and have been so fully established on the continent of Eu- 

 rope, and lately in Scotland and Kngland, that no doubt can 



* T!»is coal is of thai specie>- called anthracite, *nd gives an intense heat 

 in stoves or fireplaces where there is a strong draught. 



