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No. 2. 
Engineer Department, 
Washington, Ike. 29, 1824. 
Gextiemex: The Boaril of Internal Inipi-ovonient will forthwith 
prepare a Report of their proceedings, under instructions conmuini- 
catcd by order of the Secretary of War, by this Department, dated 
the 3 1st of May last, and subsequently, in relation to Internal Improve- 
ments. The Board will state their opinion as to the practicability of 
the several routes for canals which they have examined, should the 
examinations have been sufticientto justify the Board in forming tlieir 
opinion; but, w here the Board Iiave not been able to decide definitively 
on any particular route, they will express their impressions of <he im- 
portance of that route, or any other property or advantage which such 
route may have presented to the view of the Board, or otlier observa- 
tions which the Board may deem proper to make in relation thereto, 
"When the Board shall decide favorably in regard to any of the loutes, 
they will, in like manner, express their opinion fully, with such obser- 
vations, on the advantages and benefits which may be expected to 
arise from the construction of the canal. 
The Board will also report the operations of the Topogra])hical 
Engineers and Surveyors, connected with tlie examinations of tiie 
Board, as far as the state of their work will permit. * 
The Secretai'y of War is desirous of receiving your report as earfy 
as practicable, in order to lay it before the present Congress. 
I have, kc. 
ALEX. MACOMB, 
Mqj.' Gen. Chief Engineer, 
\l'o Brig. Gen. S. Bernard, 
Lt. Col. J. G. TOTTEN, 
J. li. Sullivan, Esq. 
Board of Internal Improvemcnf, Georgetown, D. fH. 
No. 3. 
Washington City, Feb. 3d, 1825. 
Sir: The Board of Internal Improvement have the honor to trans- 
mit two reports on the proposed canal communication between the 
tide water of the Potomac and the Ohio river — betv.een the Ohio and 
LakeErie; between the Allegany and Schuylkill, or tide water of the 
Susquehanna; between the Delaware and the Rariton; between Buz- 
zard's and Barnstable Bays, and between Narragansett Roads and 
Boston Harbor. Accompanying these reports, will be found a let- 
ter from Dr. Howard, on iiis rcconnoissance of the country south of 
the Glades; a memoir on pait of the Allegany river; a menioii* by 
each of the chiefs of brigade, viz. Major Ahert, Caj)tain McNeill, 
and Mr. James Shriver: a letter from I^ieut. John N. Diiiahunty,; p 
