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 locks) there can be no doubt but that the tranportation of all kinds of goods and merchandize from Philadelphia to Pittburgh may be at a much cheaper rate than from any other ea port on the Atlantic waters."

It mattered not where it was, every one of the Atlantic seaboard cities had an expert who could show in black and white that that particular port was in closest touch with Pittsburg and the West. Washington had done so, conclusively to all Southerners; Morris does it here to the satisfaction of Pennsylvanians, and New York had a score of mathematicians who could prove the same thing concerning New York, and the Hudson and Mohawk route.

"This is not mentioned," continues the memorial, hopefully, "with a view to diparage the internal navigation of our iter tates, more epecially Maryland and Virginia. We admire their noble exertions But, although a coniderable part of the ettlers on the Ohio waters may be accommodated by the Potomack navigation, and the tate of Pennylvania