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To the Senate of the United States: 
I herewith transmit a report fi*om the Secretary of War, w ith a re- 
port to him by the Chief Engineer, of the examination which has been 
made by the Board of Engineers for Internal Improvement, in obe- 
dience to their instructions, of the country between the Potomac and 
Ohio Rivers; between the latter and Lake Erie: between the Allegheny 
and Schuylkill Rivers, the Delaware and the Rariton; between Buz- 
zard's and Barnstable Bays and the Narragansett Roads tnid Bos- 
ton Harbor, with explanatory observations on each route. From the 
views which I have taken of these reports, I contemplate results of in- 
calculable advantage to our Union, because I see in them the most sa- 
tisfactory proof that certain impediments, which had a tendency to 
embarrass the intercourse between some of its most important sec- 
tions, may be removed without serious difficulty; and tiiat facilities 
may be afforded, in other quarters, which will have tlie happiest ef- 
feet. Of the right, in Congress, to promote these great results, by 
the appropriation of the public money, in liarmony with the states to 
be affected by them, having already communicated my sentiments ful- 
ly, and on mature consideration, I deem it unnecessary to enlarge at 
this time, 
,T/SMES MONROE. 
Washington, February 14,, 1825. 
