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hay. Now, it appears from an official return, 

 made by the keeper of the turnpike gate, at the 

 Chesuut liidge, between Stoys Town, and Greens- 

 burg, that there passed through that gate, during the 

 year ending May, 1818 5 among other things, 281 

 four-horse, 2412 five-horse, and 2698 six-horse teams ; 

 and it is said, that a gentleman, living on the road 

 near Pittsburg, in the year 1813, counted the number 

 of w^agons, laden with merchandise, which passed 

 his house that year, and that they amounted 4055. 

 Through the counties of Eedford and Somerset, the 

 road being generally on ridges, runs through a poor 

 country, to which the market aiforded by the wag- 

 ons, is essential. Somerset abounds in grass ; and 

 for oats is superior to any county in the state. — But 

 the soil is not favourable to wheat ; and, except in 

 tlie southern part, Indian corn will scarce arrive at 

 maturity. It appears, clearly, therefore, that the 

 Agriculture of Pennsylvania is very much interested 

 even in parts far west of the Susquehanna, in a wa- 

 ter communication between that river and the Del- 

 aware, as the most effectual means of preserving the 

 land carriage to Pittsburg. Another weighty consid- 

 eration is, the protection which ought to be afforded 

 to Pittsburg, against the effect of the United States' 

 turnpike from Cumberland to Wheeling. Pittsburg 

 ought to be to the western part of the slate, what 



