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our control, have such an immediate bearing on Ag- 

 riculture, by expediting and cheapening carriage, that 

 it will be always proper to do what little is in our 

 power, for their success. Works of such magnitude 

 are net to be executed, without the combined exer- 

 tions of many persons, sanctioned by the authority of 

 the legislature, and assisted by the public purse. Our 

 legislature has done nobly for roads and bridges, and 

 we trust it will do the same for canals. The first 

 great object of that kind, is the junction of the wa- 

 ters of the Susquehanna and the Schuylkill, which 

 empties into tlie Delaware. That being accomplish- 

 ed, we may look westward to the waters of the Alle- 

 ghany, and northward to the Seneca lake, which 

 being once entered, and entered it may be with no 

 great difficulty, we have the Delaware connected with 

 the great northern lakes, by means of tlie magnifi- 

 cent work now in rapid progress, in the State of 

 New- York. The project is grand; — I may not live 

 to see it executed, jci it is by no means so improba- 

 ble as many things once appeared, which in my time 

 have been accomplished. 



Yet, it must be confessed, that in canals, we lin- 

 ger behind other States, who have boldly led the 

 way. Except the works now carrying on, for the im- 

 provement of the navigation on the Schuylkill and the 

 Jieiiigh, wc have nothing to sliow but the Conewago 



