were to become by improvement the commercial avenues of the dawning age. "To combine the intereſts of all the parts of the ſtate, and to cement them in a perpetual commercial and political union, by the improvement of thoſe natural advantages, is one of the greateſt works which can be ſubmitted to legiſlative wiſdom; and the preſent moment is particularly auſpicious for the undertaking, and if neglected, the loſs will be hard to retrieve."[1]
Following this the river systems of Pennsylvania are taken up in order, showing the number of miles of waterways which it was supposed were capable of being connected and made avenues of trade. The two main divisions and their various subdivisions were as follows:
"Delaware Navigation
1. From the tide water at Trenton falls to lake Otſego, the head of the northeaſt branch of Suſquehanna
2. From the tide water on Delaware to Oſwego on lake Ontario
- ↑ An Historical Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Canal Navigation in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1795), p. 1.
