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Engineer Department, 
TVashingtony February 12, 1825. 
Sir: I have thclionor of laying before you the proceedings of the 
Board of Engineers for Internal Improvement, under your instruc- 
tions of the 3 1st of May and 29th December, 1824, of which copies 
numbered 1 and 2 are enclosed, directing an examination to be 
made of a route for a canal communication between the tide waters of 
the Chesapeake and the Ohio rivers, and between the Ohio and Lake 
Erie; also, in relation to other examinations of routes for canals under 
other instructions. These proceedings are contained in the joint let- 
ter of the Board to this department, dated 2d of February, 1825, a co- 
py of which, numbered 3, is enclosed; also, in the report of Gen. Ber- 
nard and Col. Totten, and in the separate report of Mr. Sullivan, of 
the former of which marked A, and the latter marked C, copies are 
transmitted herewith. 
I have the honor to be, 
Very respectfully, sir. 
Your obedient servant, 
ALEX. MACOMB, 
Maj. Gen. Chief Eng. . 
Hon. J. C. Cawioun, 
Secretary of War. 
