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same rate, that is thirty miles against the stream, 
and sixty miles with the stream, each day, it 
would amount to twenty-five days, which, added 
to the time of going, makes in the whole fifty- 
nine days; if the odd day be allowed for con¬ 
tingencies, the passage to and from the two 
places would then be exactly alike. It is fair 
then to conclude, that if the demand at the 
federal city for country produce be equally 
great as at New Orleans, and there is no rea¬ 
son to say why it should not, the whole of the 
produce of that country, which lies contiguous 
to the Ohio, and the rivers falling into it, as 
far down as Louisville in Kentucky, will be 
sent to the former of these places. This tract 
is seven hundred miles in length, and from 
one hundred to tw o hundred miles in breadth. 
Added to this, the whole of that country lying 
near the Alleghany River, and the streams 
that run into it, must naturally be supplied 
from the city; a great part of the country bor¬ 
dering upon Lake Erie, near Presqu 5 Isle, 
may likewise be included. o 
Considering the vastness of the territory, 
which is thus opened to the federal city by 
means of a water communication; considering 
that it is capable, from the fertility of its soil, 
of maintaining* three times the number of in¬ 
habitants that are to be found at present in all 
the United States; and that it is advancing at 
