"The memorial of 'The Society for promoting the improvement of roads and inland navigation,'
"Reſpectfully ſheweth,
"That your memoraliſts, reſiding in various parts of this ſtate, with a view to contribute their beſt endeavors to promote the internal trade, manufactures and population of their country, by facilitating every poſſible communication between the different parts of the ſtate, have lately formed themſelves into a ſociety, by the name above mentioned. And knowing that the Legiſlature, with the laudable intention of advancing the beſt intereſts of this commonwealth, and availing themſelves of the extenſive information, which they have obtained of the geography and ſituation of the country, have now under their conſideration the important ſubject of roads and inland navigation; we, therefore, beg leave, with all poſſible deference, to ſuggeſt ſome important conſiderations which have occurred to us in our enquiries into this ſubject." A description of the position of Pennsylvania then follows, with an outline of her rivers which, as was then believed,
