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Pennsylvania line, from which the road could be most 

 easily continued to the village of Newtown. Should 

 such exertions be made on your part, to procure our 

 trade, they will be met by reciprocal efforts on ours. 

 Your turnpike road and improvement of the Susque- 

 hanna, would doubtless be immediately extended from 

 your line to the village of Newtown — operations, 

 which, from the shortness of the distance, might, to 

 be sure, be easily efiected, but which are so entirely 

 dependent upon yours that they never will be even 

 commenced until yours shall be in great forwardness. 

 '' Previous to the consideration of the advantages, 

 that the proposed improvements would produce, both 

 for your state and for the western part of New York, 

 it will not, perhaps, be useless to take a general view 

 of the most usual mode pursued by the storekeepers in 

 this country, in making their remittances to the mer- 

 chants from v/hom they purchase goods. 



*' By much the greater part, indeed I believe all the 

 goods, that are sold in this country, are brought either 

 from Philadelphia or from New York. The produce 

 of this country, if wheats is sent in arks (which cannot 

 return against the stream) to Baltimore or Philadel- 

 phia, or which is the same thing to some intermediate 

 place ; if live stock, it is driven to Philadelphia or New- 

 York. The advantage of sending wheat to Baltimore 

 is, that, the conveyance of it being solely by water, 

 the expense and waste of storage, loading and unload- 

 ing, &:c. are prevented. This saving is, nevertheless, 

 more than counterbalanced, by the dangerous naviga- 

 tion of the lower part of the Susquehanna ; by the ad- 

 ditional distance, which the hands, who navigate the 



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