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MISCELLANEOUS- PAPERS.. 



the bridge at the place marked GH; the diftance or 

 length of the fame, by the different courfes, is la miles, 

 lo perches. The hight of the higheft ground above the 

 level of the tide is fixty-eight feet and a half. 



The ground to be dug and moved, for a barge naviga- 

 tion, they make 387860 cubic yards* 

 And the whole expence of completing the canal, 



or a barge navigation, - ^ £, 195396 : 10 



The additional expence for a lock navigation 40,924 : lo- 



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Total for a lock navigation, 



£* 60,^ 



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The difference between the expence of a barge and 

 lock navigation being fo great, the committee therefore 



recommend the former for the prefent. 



The particular eftimates upon which the foregoing ab- 

 ra£t is founded, together with the plans of furveys, ele- 

 vations of the ground, and Drafts of the different propofed 

 canals, being too large to be infcrted in the tranllidions 

 of the fociety, are therefore lodged in their cabinet for the 

 infpedion of thofe who may defire further fatisfadion, in 

 regard to the pra£ticability of carrying either of the above 

 fchemes into execution, which on a due confuleration of 

 all circumftances may be judged moft for the public fer-- 



Vice. 



In the mean time the immediate opening the propofed 



new road from Peach^Bottom on Sufquchannah, to the 

 tide waters of Chriftiana-Creck, is recommended as a 

 matter of the utmoft importance, not only to the chy of 

 Philadelphia, but to a great part of the fettlers on the wa-- 



ters of Sufquchannah, 



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