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 may only have a hare in the trade of thoe waters; yet there remains to us the immene trade of the lakes, taking Prequ'Ile, which is within our own tate, as the great mart or place of embarkation."

It is exceedingly interesting to note that while Pennsylvania at this time only expected to share with her southern neighbors the trade of the Ohio Basin, she expected a monopoly of the trade on the Great Lakes. Of the latter trade she secured only a fraction, while of the former she secured practically a monopoly for half a century.

The route is more carefully outlined in the memorial: "It connects Philadelphia with Pittburgh and all the Ohio waters, by the Schuylkill, the Swatara and Juniata branches of Suquehanna, and the Kikeminetas branch of Allegheny, with the ditance of five hundred and ixty-one miles and an half and alo Philadelphia and Prequ'Ile, uing the ame waters  to the mouth of Kikeminetas, and then by the eay waters of Allegheny and French Creek. In this whole communication to