THE following account of Schuylkill Permanent 

 Bridge, and the circumstances connected xvith it, was drawn 

 up, at the request of one o^ the proprietors of an extensively 

 useful publication, now in progress* It was found, that the 

 plan of the work did not admit of its being inserted under 

 any one article; and it was therefore withdrawn. In con- 

 formity with the design of our institution, it has been pre- 

 sented to the Society. A statistical viezv of an erection so 

 important to agriculture and the arts, is deemed worthy of 

 being communicated among the objects of our attention. The 

 interests of this great coynmercial city, and the accommodation 

 of all the inhabitants of this and other States, whose affairs 

 require an intercourse with it, through this approach, are 

 promoted by an enterprize completed with private funds, and 

 by the exertions of a few persevering individuals. Though the 

 facts of its history are local, many of them furnish instruct- 

 five lessons of general importance. 



Philadelphia, 1806. 



