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direction nearly parallel to the faid Weft line. Thegrountl 

 admits of a good road from this to the place where the 

 faid boundary line erodes Odlorara Creek, near the Horfe- 

 Shoe Ford ; after whlca it naay be continued near the faid 

 Tine until it meets with the boundary of Newcaftle county. 

 Thai: part of the road which lies in Newcaftle county is al- 

 ready made, and there is a law lu that government, for 

 keeping it in good repair. There are no hills to obftru£t 

 it, except at Odorara Creek and Great Elk ; the moft con- 

 venient places of pafling which appear to be at Wilkic's 

 Mill, and the abovementioned Horfe-Shoe Ford, where 

 the hills may be ealily afcendcd by winding a little on the 

 Pennfylvania fide. This road may be made at a fmall ex.- 

 pence, and will reduce the diftancc between Peach Bottom 

 and the tide waters of Chriftiana to about thirty-two miles. 

 Bridges muft: be thrown over the ftreams of Odorara and 

 Elk, as they are frequently fo high as not to be forded. 

 The whole expence of this work, they fuppofe will not 

 exceed a thoufand or fifteen hundred pounds. 



*' Upon the whole, they remark, that the river Sufque- 

 hannah is the natural channel through which the produce 

 of three-fourths of this province muft In time be conveyed- 

 to market for exportation, and through which great part 

 of the back inhabitants will be fupplied with foreign com- 

 modities. 



" That this conveyance will become eafy and cheap, to 

 the fettlers above the Peach Bottom or Bald Friar Falls;, 

 and may, by proper encouragement, be found the moft:. 

 ufeful and convenient for all the Weftern tradb. 



4t That a road from Peach Bottom to the navigable wa^ 

 ters of Chriftiana Creek, will reduce the whole land car- 



iage of the. moft remote Inhabitants on the various 

 branches of the Sufquehannah to thirty-two miles, which: 

 appears to be the fliorteft portage from that river, to the 

 navigable branches of Delaware, which can be had within 

 the limits of this government; and that the conveyance 

 from Chriftiana to Philadelphia isknown tobefafeandeafy 



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