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 in the firt place," read this memorial, "if we turn our view to the immene territories connected with the Ohio and Miiippi waters, and bordering on the great lakes, it will appear from the tables of ditances, that our communication with thoe vat countries (conidering Fort Pitt as the port of entrance upon them) is as eay and may be rendered as cheap, as to any other port on the Atlantic tide waters. The ditance from Philadelphia to the Allegheny, at the mouth of Kikeminetas, is nearly the ame as from the mouth of Monongahela to George Town on Potomac; and uppoing the computed ditances from Pittburgh to the Dunkard Bottom to be jut, and the navigation of Cheat river, on the one hand, and the Potomack, at the mouth of Savage river, on the other, to be, at all eaons of the year, equal to the navigation of the Kikeminetas, Conemaugh and Juniata; yet as the portage from Dunkard Bottom to the Potomack, at the mouth of Savage river, is thirty-even miles and a quarter, and the portage from Conemaugh to Juniata only eighteen miles (which may be coniderably hortened by