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embargo, wheat never has been so high at Montreal as 

 in the ports of the United States. 



'' It is evident that the return trade from a sea-port 

 to the interior, which consists of articles of high value 

 in comparison with their bulk and weight, is carried on 

 with cheapness, in some degree proportionate to the 

 quantity of the trade, from the interior to the sea-ports, 

 which consists of heavy and bulky produce but of 

 small value. The immense quantity of this rude pro- 

 duce, w^hich, by making the improvements suggested, 

 Pennsylvania would certainly draw into the midst of 

 her population from the Genessee country, &c. would 

 enable her to transmit by return, up the Susquehanna 

 and Canisteo, her merchandize, manufactures and 

 surplus articles, at a very cheap rate, by means of the 

 numerous persons and conveyances employed in bring- 

 ing the rude produce to her markets. Nor is the im- 

 portance of the measure limited here, Pennsylvanians 

 might transport their goods from the Canisteo to the 

 Allegheny (a distance of only 48 miles, 20 of which, 

 from Hornill's to Angelica, is nearly turnpiked) and 

 thence down that river to the western part of Pennsyl- 

 vania, to Pittsburgh and the Ohio, and thus undersell 

 the Montreal merchant, however enterprising and in- 

 dustrious. 



" I assure you, that I suggested, several years ago, 

 to many gentlemen of Philadelphia, tlie practicability 

 of supplying the whole western country with goods at 

 a much cheaper rate, by means of the Susquehanna 

 and Allegheny rivers, than they have been furnlbhed 

 at by the present mode of land carriage to Pittsburgh — 

 and, yet, there were very few, who did not regard the 



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